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Ken Livingstone, anti-Semitism and the media's agenda
CarnelianCarnelian
Carnelian Remember how long Blair's honour to Bernie Ecclestone ran in the media? People were still going on about it 8 years latter. Yet Cameron honours Lynton Crosby for running a dirty tricks campaign against Labour and the media only cares for a week. How is running a dirty tricks campaign for the Tories worthy of an honour? That's not in the country's interest. That's in the Tory Party's interest. How has it benefited the country? Obviously Tories will be pleased that there is a Tory government,... [ more ]
Carnelian Isn't that the point that the Labour Party has to be twice as competent and twice as ethical to even be regarded by our media as half as competent and half as ethical as the Tory Party? [ more ]
Carnelian This mostly! I do think Livingstone has a bit of anti-semitism in him but for Mann to shout "Nazi apologist" at Livingstone was a disgrace. Mann should be booted out of the Labour Party! Only yesterday Zak Goldsmith implied that Sadiq Khan was a terrorist sympathiser because he was Asian and a Muslim This kind of dog whistle racism goes unchecked while the media vultures pick at the Labour Party. [ more ]
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slow connection
pirate1111pirate1111
El Loro Lori, Pirate posted recently that he uses Windows 7 but I don;t know which browser. I'm also on Windows 7. I did have problems in getting on the forum a few days ago. I was able to get on to the Big Brother page but not on the Home page. Other sites were OK. I use Firefox, there had been an update to that (it's now 46.0.1) and I decided to Refresh Firefox from Troubleshooting Information in the Firefox menu. That seems to have sorted that problem out. [ more ]
Lori Pirate, can you tell me what you are using (PC or Mac), what operating system, what browser, and the versions of each? I'll see if I can do some troubleshooting. [ more ]
Yogi19 EC!! As Baz said, this site is usually okay for me, unless Seattle are tinkering. [ more ]
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RSPCA
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pirate1111 yeah i really wanted to-it was only tiny poor little sod [ more ]
Saint I would probably have gone over and took the dog. Travelled miles away and donated it to an animal shelter .. or something [ more ]
pirate1111 bit of a late reply-i got in touch with RSPCA a couple of times & same old answer, they can only rescue dog if a vet says dog needs removing & cops gotta be there...so anyway the original person that told me got a private animal rescue service to intervene, dont know whats happened yet but he hasnt messaged me,so im going to assume all is good i was honestly going to go and get the dog! i put my metal toe capped boots on in case i needed to kick door off & got my bolt cutters in... [ more ]
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Live streaming of Mercury's transit over the Sun
El LoroEl Loro
Saint Hello Baz - sorry I had to reload ... bit like Freddie - aherm . . . Things are not too bad - my Dad finishes his radiotherapy tomorrow then waits 5weeks before anew round of tests to decide how they proceed. Mum is doing well but goes back into hospital to have some internal clips removed in a months time. Seems never ending - how's you? [ more ]
Baz Hi Renton How are things going ? [ more ]
Saint Well he did say, " I'm a rocket ship on my way to Mars On a collision course I am a satellite I'm out of control " SeewotIdidthere [ more ]
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BAFTAs
CosmopolitanCosmopolitan
Dame_Ann_Average some of Peter Koiminsky's speech was edited out....references to Russian and North Korea TV and freedom of speech. For those poor sods that are not on social media they won't have a clue what's going on in Britain http://www.theguardian.com/tv-...P=Share_iOSApp_Other [ more ]
Former Member Missed the BAFTAs.... but I'm delighted to see our Cosi back Was worried sick Pedro came down off the wall and ate her Welcome back ! xx [ more ]
Kaffs Grayson Perry (and wife) in all their hideous glory... [ more ]
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Knock Knock - Who's There? - Labour
Enthusiastic ContrafibularitiesEnthusiastic Contrafibularities
pirate1111 tories are not living & breathing, they run on 2 AA batteries [ more ]
Carnelian Only got the police thing to vote for so won't bother with that. Hopefully Corbyn will give the vested media interests and Blairite malcontent red-Tories a bloody nose. Why is it we can have a PM who hawks arms to the vile Saudi regime, which Labour want stopped, yet the Tory media are spinning Labour as terrorist sympathisers and that spin is generally playing well with 'the public'. The abysmal standard of political discourse in this country is Orwellian. [ more ]
Cold Sweat We've not had anyone knock our door AFAIK. I did spend some time with the guys running the local Labour "stall" in town on Saturday (2 of whom are elected councillors) and the mood was positive. [ more ]
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Happy Star Wars Day!
Eugene's LairEugene's Lair
Former Member The films didn't make much impression on me but I remember the excitement + all the tat that came out when it was released. I loved my Star Wars watch. Also the wee boy next door was always showing off his toys So I nicked his Hans Solo b.t.w. That's the only thing I've ever stolen apart from when a local gang of millies [ Belfast version of scalllies] took me under their wing + we all shoplifted an ice-lolly for a dare Although that shop [Simpsons! Yes you! ] had rip off prices + I more... [ more ]
Moonie I have seen the first three but didn't fancy the rest...hope that helps [ more ]
Former Member Re: Happy Star Wars Day! [ more ]
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Pensions....
FM Former Member
El Loro EC, yes £1,000 for standard rate tax payers, £500 for higher rate taxpayers, and nil for anyone who had income over £150k. For those on lowish income, they might be able to make use of the 0% rate band on interest up to £5,000 and that's in addition to the £1,000. Those exclude interest from ISAs which can be ignored for tax purposes. Retired people are the most likely to benefit. Someone with pension income of £11,000 and interest income of £6,000 would pay no tax - the pension income is... [ more ]
Garage Joe I think that tax free bag of sand interest is right across the board covering all of your non ISA stuff like acçounts and bonds. [ more ]
Enthusiastic Contrafibularities I am not really surprised that they could consider raising the retirement age again in the future. We are living longer so I guess they (whoever they are at the time) need to fund pensions longer. I must say that I currently fall into the group that will retire at 68, but I bet it will rise to 70 before I get there. I have to say that ISA's (the cash variety) are a bit of a poor investment at the moment given the shockingly low interest rates. I will admit to my 3 year fixed cash ISA at 3%... [ more ]
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Happy May Day!
Garage JoeGarage Joe
Garage Joe Suffice to say we have a long history of spending NYE in RHB and a decade or so ago Mrs Jer's friend and I were last men standing. She suggested that we randomly first foot a few houses. I have to say that Martin and Norma were very good about it. [ more ]
Baz By accident ? There has to be a story there GJ [ more ]
Garage Joe Believe it or not, I've been in their house!(by accident one New Year's Eve) [ more ]
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Are you non-binary
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Garage Joe El Loro's post reminds of a rather amusing little thing Mrs Jer used to say way back when ....... She offered her honour he honoured her offer and all night long it was honour and offer. [ more ]
Enthusiastic Contrafibularities Are you referring to the Binary number system or some other binary I'm not aware of? As regards to superstition, I don't think I am. When my team wins I don't take the same route to the game, having the same coffee at the same place or same lunch etc. [ more ]
Saint I'm not very superstitious - so does that make me simply stitious? Seriously though . . . regardless of how you see yourself - so long as you have a good heart, that's all that matters [ more ]
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Happy Anniversary, Gaga!
LoriLori
Xochi Late to the party as usual. Wow! Seven years eh?! Isn't that when we get an itch? I'll always come home here though. Thank you lovely Lori, Rosemary and all at Seattle (and Dave if he reads this) and I echo those comments for rescuing us and putting up with us with such tolerance over all this time. Well done us all! [ more ]
~Sparkling Summer~ Aaaaw happy anniversary everyone I'm so glad to be here and I love this place the friendships I have made here are definitely my highlight [ more ]
Rosemary O'Neill ❤️
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Adverts on You Tube
FM Former Member
Enthusiastic Contrafibularities Regarding your first point, have you seen my new video hosting website? www.metoob.co.uk And your second point, Shhhhhhhh [ more ]
Carnelian they're not going to give away content with no revenue stream. They'd go bust if they did. That's capitalism for you! I don't think YouTube should be nationalised and if so it would be nationalised by the American gov't and they'd expect a return for the US taxpayer, so we're stuck with adverts. [ more ]
Eugene's Lair My view essentially comes back to the old line regarding social media: "If you're not paying for it, you're not the customer: you're the product.", so I don't really see how we can complain about it. Although if enough users start to get annoyed with it, I can potentially see a competitor stepping in, though... Haven't given it a lot of thought yet, but I did wonder though: a lot of FMs (including myself) post YouTube clips here: is that going to be a problem in the future, seeing as Gaga... [ more ]
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Doctor Who
El LoroEl Loro
El Loro Peter Capaldi has revealed how a theatre trip to see the new Doctor Who companion turned into a test of his acting skills. The actor went to see The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time in early April - before Pearl Mackie was announced as his new co-star. When he was invited to meet the cast after the show, Capaldi and Mackie had to pretend they had never met. In reality they'd already filmed a top secret scene together with the Daleks. ... [ more ]
Kaffs to hell with the target audience, I say... [ more ]
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I passed!!
Jen-StarJen-Star
Enthusiastic Contrafibularities I bet your number will be the number one called number in her mobile. [ more ]
Jen-Star Well its funny you should say that! My car is red and we walked past this last year (her name is Amber) [ more ]
Enthusiastic Contrafibularities Well it sounds like it's going rather well (excepting the MOT). Good to hear you are finding it a big benefit. When will you get the sticker "Daughters Taxi"? [ more ]
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hillsborough
pirate1111pirate1111
Former Member The whole thing just beggars belief Dame Andy Burnham is a chancer i.m.o. but he proved really useful to the families fighting for justice. Shows what happens when good people won't back down xx [ more ]
Eugene's Lair Looks like a boycott of The Times could be on the cards too... http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/...r-BBsls21?li=BBoPWjQ Turns out that Murdoch visited the Times newsroom on Tuesday: purely coincidence, I'm sure... [ more ]
Dame_Ann_Average I think Cameron should stand up in Parliament and apologise too...he said some nasty stuff I'm not a fan of Andy Burnham, but he's fought so hard for justice and his speech today was outstanding... I've not read the Scum since they printed that disgusting article [ more ]
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The BMA are trying to topple the government.......
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Dame_Ann_Average it's all out there, people either don't look or don't care [ more ]
Former Member I was going to comment...unbelievable but......... [ more ]
Dame_Ann_Average so transparent it's laughable, he co-wrote this in 2005 Jeremy Hunt co-authored a policy pamphlet that called for the NHS to be replaced by an insurance system. The 2005 policy book, called Direct Democracy: An Agenda For A New Model Party, was a collection of writings authored by a group of Tory MPs. Amongst other ideas, the book contained a blueprint for replacing the NHS with an insurance market system – and called for the private sector to be brought in. ... [ more ]
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R.I.P Prince
CindsCinds
Cinds I saw this earlier, made me cry, but in fairness, everything makes me cry these days. (Hormones + menopause). Anyway, apart from Jennifer Hudson having to read the lyrics (not slagging). It's wonderful. [ more ]
Saint I've had Percocet - made me ill, went all wobbly Had to take an anti-sickness tablet to counteract Percocet [ more ]
Former Member Its being reported the overdose six days prior to Prince's death, involved painkiller percocet [ highly addictive and contains oxycodin, an opioid ]. He'd had hip surgery back in 2010. Just makes it even more sad somehow. [ more ]
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Who should grace the back of the next £20 note?
SaintSaint
Saint Great choice . . . and Churchill on the £5 note soon [ more ]
El Loro The Bank of England has now announced that the next £20 note will show the artist J M W Turner with his panting The Fighting Temeraire, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-36111975 [ more ]
El Loro Originally Posted by Cosmopolitan: Originally Posted by El Loro: I did nominate Michael Powell the film director of films such as A Matter of Life and Death and The Red Shoes and he is in the list. Nice one, El Loro..! Thank you [ more ]
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Paralympic Oscar Pistorius
AimeeAimee
Dame_Ann_Average here's more detail about the book... I've been following the two people that wrote this and they have done a far more thorough job than the SA police or forensics. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/ho...ore-killing-her.html [ more ]
Former Member What kind of sick 'tard' does this http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/...PWjQ&ocid=TSHDHP [ more ]
Yogi19 Releasing him before the appeal took place wasn't a good idea. Glad someone has seen sense! [ more ]
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Tonight I have done something that I have not been able to do until today ...AGAIN
Enthusiastic ContrafibularitiesEnthusiastic Contrafibularities
Enthusiastic Contrafibularities I think I saw him briefly in an interview not so long back and he looked quite frail then. More sad news on an already bad week with Victoria and Prince. He directed some of my favourite Bonds amongst 18 other films, which included Funeral in Berlin to name just one. [ more ]
El Loro Sad news today that Guy Hamilton the film director has died, He was 93. He directed Goldfinger, Diamonds are Forever, Live and Let Die, and The Man with the Golden Gun. Roger Moore tweeted ""incredibly, incredibly saddened to hear the wonderful director Guy Hamilton has gone to the great cutting room in the sky. 2016 is horrid". http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36101644 [ more ]
Xochi Blimey Donks! I've found your link and wonder how I've never seen this before! Thanks muchly. One of my best buddies used to have to work in the USSR as was and this reminds me so much of her, admittedly limited experience of working there. Put it this way, fruit and vegs were impossible to find to eat. Unless it was cabbage. And her experience of how the drunks In Moscow were often dug of snow, usually dead, following stealing antifreeze from cars are legion! [ more ]
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