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Post by pigbag on Feb 20, 2021 11:29:56 GMT
You don't honestly think that any one on this board takes your political ranting seriously do you? You are just seen as an annoying irritant.
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Post by jdl on Feb 20, 2021 12:14:29 GMT
You don't honestly think that any one on this board takes your political ranting seriously do you? You are just seen as an annoying irritant. Not quite the words I would use...
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Post by shamstone on Feb 20, 2021 13:27:23 GMT
You don't honestly think that any one on this board takes your political ranting seriously do you? You are just seen as an annoying irritant. Not quite the words I would use... What would you use š¬
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Post by nws on Feb 20, 2021 14:38:54 GMT
You don't honestly think that any one on this board takes your political ranting seriously do you? You are just seen as an annoying irritant. No. People that are unbothered always resort to abuse.
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Post by nws on Feb 20, 2021 14:42:55 GMT
Not quite the words I would use... What would you use š¬ Take it with a pinch of salt, Shammy. He is another one that is 'utterly unbothered by me', even pretending not to read my posts while constantly mentioning me. He dotes on me. It's how I imagine my daughters will be in a few years.
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Post by sword65 on Feb 20, 2021 15:21:18 GMT
Take it with a pinch of salt, Shammy. He is another one that is 'utterly unbothered by me', even pretending not to read my posts while constantly mentioning me. He dotes on me. It's how I imagine my daughters will be in a few years. Greta Thurnburgs mk 2 + 3 . The world shudders in anticipation but at least they'll blame you for the state of the planet and have you put in a home where you cannot do any more damage. I can hear the care workers ringing the union already.š¤£
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Post by jdl on Feb 20, 2021 21:47:47 GMT
Not quite the words I would use... What would you use š¬ 'Unselfaware' springs to mind, possibly 'attention seeking', possibly even 'sociopath'. Then there's words like 'irritating', 'spamming' and 'boring'... But that's a lot of effort, so I usually settle for 'arse'.
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Post by jdl on Feb 20, 2021 21:54:37 GMT
Take it with a pinch of salt, Shammy. He is another one that is 'utterly unbothered by me', even pretending not to read my posts while constantly mentioning me. He dotes on me. It's how I imagine my daughters will be in a few years. Greta Thurnburgs mk 2 + 3 . The world shudders in anticipation but at least they'll blame you for the state of the planet and have you put in a home where you cannot do any more damage. I can hear the care workers ringing the union already.š¤£ 'narcassistic' might be another one. I can only disappoint him by assuring him that there is no pretence - I do not read his posts by choice. I have had him blocked for years - and I suspect I am not the only one. But, unfortunately, the ProBoards blocking option is not very effective, as it doesn't block any posts that quote his - so I still see more than enough to convince me that he hasn't changed, and probably never will.
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Post by nws on Feb 20, 2021 21:58:23 GMT
'Unselfaware' springs to mind, possibly 'attention seeking', possibly even 'sociopath'. Then there's words like 'irritating', 'spamming' and 'boring'... But that's a lot of effort, so I usually settle for 'arse'. Cutting... Spamming? 14,319 v 956...factually, it's a great point.
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Post by pigbag on Feb 28, 2021 9:23:28 GMT
A message to NWS from Ed Cumming of the Observer For those of us who like to talk Britain down, all this good news is hard to take. The vaccination figures are shocking. Nearly 20 million first doses administered. A forward-thinking procurement plan. The leading large nation, far ahead of the US and, more gallingly for us frothing Remoaners, miles ahead of Europe. Nothing could be more depressing for the honest self-loathing liberal Brit. You know the type. Recycle assiduously but fly once a fortnight.
We canāt say we havenāt had a good run. The past few years have been wonderful. Any positive stories could be written off as a fluke or a statistical aberration. There has been abundant bad news to confirm what we already knew: Britain is a sad, grey little Plague Island in the Atlantic, incapable of relinquishing its past glories and heading full tilt towards irrelevance. Brexit has been Gloomster Glastonbury.
Surely the pandemic canāt have exposed shortcomings in having a pan-continental uber-bureaucracy? The early days of the pandemic were promising, too. We had the dithering over lockdown, the PPE fiasco and the Barnard Castle drive-by. All reinforced our narrative of total incompetence. A simple eye-roll was usually enough to convey your membership of the told-you-so club. What do you expect from 10 years of Tory rule? The turkeys voted for Christmas. Itās our children and grandchildren Iām worried about.
The self-loathers hadnāt had it so good since Suez. But this year life is increasingly bewildering. The test-and-trace fiasco was comforting. It proved that when the Tories combine public money with private businesses, an orgy of cronyism ensues. Yet the vaccine programme has turned out to be a slick collaboration between hard-nosed businesspeople, big pharma and the academic establishment. Itās almost as confusing as Gillian Anderson playing Margaret Thatcher. Even Private Eye conceded that theyād been āharshā on vaccine tsar Kate Bingham.
It turns out it might not only be vaccinations that Britain is excelling at. An article in the Economist, not normally given to jingoism, pointed out the UKās success in cutting carbon emissions. For several months last year the UK burned no coal. It looks likely that soon it wonāt burn any at all. You might argue weāve outsourced emissions to China, but so has everyone else. The bitterest pill is that weāre beating Germany. Germany, the nation self-loathing Brits revere more than any other. Germany, which welcomes every immigrant, has sensible governments, and has only ever craved peaceful European integration.
It transpires that several of the dozen or so vaccines Germany thought to order have been ensnared in red tape. Surely the pandemic canāt have exposed shortcomings in having a pan-continental uber-bureaucracy?
How the EUās vaccine effort turned into a crisis Read more Wasnāt all that technik meant to lead to a bit of vorsprung? The front page of Bild, one of Germanyās main tabloids, last Wednesday read āBritain, We Envy Youā. While Eeyorish Mrs Merkel warns of yet another lockdown, with less than 10% of her population vaccinated, our flaxen-haired prime minister leads his nation towards a summer of Weimar excess. Mutti, how could you forsake your fans in Islington like this?
The American economics professor Tyler Cowen, in a blog about the Economist piece, said Britain was āgrossly underratedā, also pointing out our performance in AI and Londonās enduring appeal as a global city. Our bond yields are substantially higher than Germanyās, indicating that hopes of recovery are better advanced. At the time of writing it looks as though the European Football Championships, originally to be played across the continent, will be held solely in England, a neat metaphor for this confusing year.
There are glimmers of light for gloomsters. Amsterdam has taken over as Europeās share-trading capital? Tell me more. Lorry delays and export nightmares? Give it to me neat. But everywhere we look there are questions without easy answers. Does Ed Davey deserve some credit? Is Matt Hancock not the literal devil? Is the UK actuallyā¦ good?
We must be thankful for the cricketers. Presumably reading about the vaccination rates from their bubble in Gujarat, they took the trouble to engineer one of their most craven defeats in memory. When everything else is looking up, itās nice to have failures you can rely on.
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Post by headstone on Feb 28, 2021 10:06:36 GMT
We must be thankful for the cricketers. Presumably reading about the vaccination rates from their bubble in Gujarat, they took the trouble to engineer one of their most craven defeats in memory. When everything else is looking up, itās nice to have failures you can rely on. I'd say the ICC are as craven as the National League, as they will allow India to get away with producing two totally unfit pitches without any punishment. I think "a level playing field" is the phrase they should be looking for.
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Post by sword65 on Feb 28, 2021 12:07:28 GMT
We must be thankful for the cricketers. Presumably reading about the vaccination rates from their bubble in Gujarat, they took the trouble to engineer one of their most craven defeats in memory. When everything else is looking up, itās nice to have failures you can rely on. I'd say the ICC are as craven as the National League, as they will allow India to get away with producing two totally unfit pitches without any punishment. I think "a level playing field" is the phrase they should be looking for. Of course here in England we would never leave a green tinge in our pitches to aid our seam attack would we. The pitch in Ahmedabad was the same for both sides and it's not the Indians fault that their spinners are world class and ours aren't. Its not the Indians fault that our batsmen are technically inefficient. Its not the Indians fault that our players lack the bottle to compete.
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Post by La femme de Vic Jobson on Feb 28, 2021 15:30:29 GMT
We must be thankful for the cricketers. Presumably reading about the vaccination rates from their bubble in Gujarat, they took the trouble to engineer one of their most craven defeats in memory. When everything else is looking up, itās nice to have failures you can rely on. I'd say the ICC are as craven as the National League, as they will allow India to get away with producing two totally unfit pitches without any punishment. I think "a level playing field" is the phrase they should be looking for. f**k THIS f**king THREAD f**k OFF f**k f**k OFF f**k OFF f**k OFF f**k f**k f**k f**k OFF. f**k OFF.
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Post by sword65 on Feb 28, 2021 15:35:01 GMT
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Post by pigbag on Mar 1, 2021 12:14:49 GMT
I'd say the ICC are as craven as the National League, as they will allow India to get away with producing two totally unfit pitches without any punishment. I think "a level playing field" is the phrase they should be looking for. f**k THIS f**king THREAD f**k OFF f**k f**k OFF f**k OFF f**k OFF f**k f**k f**k f**k OFF. f**k OFF. Careful you will have NWS after you for swearing. You know what a sensitive soul he is.
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