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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2020 21:40:41 GMT
I have been specifically excluded from this rather arduous requirement for obvious reasons.
The job just got a whole lot more complicated as of 0600, no pay rise, and the last thing you want to do is worry about political correctness issues.
There is a potential national security problem approaching very fast and some of us are here to do our best to ensure the continued survival of the British things which so many people find so important in so many ways.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2020 22:17:15 GMT
All the stuff I've bought from china over the years, and none of it has lasted this feckin long.
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Post by peterboat on Apr 1, 2020 22:29:51 GMT
Now peterboat is doing a magnetman and nicking what I said earlier. C'mon people, get your own ideas! Oi, I said it first. I have been saying it from the beginning ask JohnV
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Post by Clinton Cool on Apr 1, 2020 22:59:29 GMT
I have been saying it from the beginning ask JohnV Oh Ok I said it second. It's not a competition The important thing is that we should be allowed to hold our belief without ridicule. While those who believe in various gods should be 'respected' we're told, anyone who comes out with alternative theories regarding current affairs is branded as a fruitcake. This is not fair, this is not equality. If god had never been worshipped and someone came out with a conspiracy theory that animals didn't evolve, they were created, one by one, by a bloke with long hair and a beard who lived above us, and he was everywhere, he or she would (rightly) be laughed at. Our theory is much more likely than that of their being a god, so let's not let the nay sayer establishment junkies and religious fruitcakes deflect our belief.
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Post by naughtyfox on Apr 2, 2020 5:55:30 GMT
Suddenly reminded me of the rather blasé attitude of our great leader at the beginning of this world-changing month. No wonder he's been bitten by the bug! Good one, Maggers. "I shook hands with everyone, including those who had coronavirus." That's the British Bulldog spirit! Cripes! What ho! Jolly good! No fear!
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Post by naughtyfox on Apr 2, 2020 6:05:13 GMT
So myself, Peterboat and Naughtyfox believe that the panfaces, or slopes if you prefer, are responsible for 'planting' this virus in order to speed the one party state's economic domination of the world. Anyone else in? Although I quite like the Chinese as people (there are so many races of them, or different genetic varieties you could say, it's a huge part of the world what they call 'China'), I just don't like the so-called 'Communist' 'government'. We all know it's a nasty, dictatorial mafia, shamelessly selling poorly made crappy products to the 'West' for years and laughing about it. Also, as I have said, you can't blame them for it - the British have treated the Chinese appallingly in the past: "The Opium Wars were two wars in the mid-19th century involving Great Qing and the British Government and concerned their imposition of trade of opium upon China. Opium can also be used as a psychoactive drug that changes the user's state of mind. Opium is also an addictive drug. More and more people grew addicted to opium. So, the British were able to export more and more opium. By selling this drug, the British slowly began to make more money on their exports to China than they spent on their imports of Chinese goods." How awfully nice of the British.
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Post by JohnV on Apr 2, 2020 6:15:42 GMT
I have been saying it from the beginning ask JohnV Oh Ok I said it second. It's not a competition The important thing is that we should be allowed to hold our belief without ridicule. While those who believe in various gods should be 'respected' we're told, anyone who comes out with alternative theories regarding current affairs is branded as a fruitcake. This is not fair, this is not equality. If god had never been worshipped and someone came out with a conspiracy theory that animals didn't evolve, they were created, one by one, by a bloke with long hair and a beard who lived above us, and he was everywhere, he or she would (rightly) be laughed at. Our theory is much more likely than that of their being a god, so let's not let the nay sayer establishment junkies and religious fruitcakes deflect our belief. I am on the side of the sceptics here as I believe the Peoples Republic are well on the way to world domination by economic means without any risk. Therefore I think it unlikely that they would try to achieve the same results using a different but risky method. The only possible advantage I can think of for the second plan is speed. This would be more likely coming from a democracy as their planning is always short term (until the next election) Communist states and China in particular are inclined to plan for the long haul However Peterboat considers it a possibility it was released by accident from a research laboratory. I would consider this a more plausible conspiracy theory
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2020 6:48:47 GMT
I would have thought that there would be an independent scientist who understood the topic and would be able to work out if it was man made.
They seem to have said it is from an animal. It just seems unlikely that all scientists would be under the control of the Chinese state.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2020 6:55:17 GMT
However Peterboat considers it a possibility it was released by accident from a research laboratory. I would consider this a more plausible conspiracy theory The origin of this theory seems to be the Dean Koontz book.
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Post by bodger on Apr 2, 2020 6:57:54 GMT
So myself, Peterboat and Naughtyfox believe that the panfaces, or slopes if you prefer, are responsible for 'planting' this virus in order to speed the one party state's economic domination of the world. Anyone else in? We all know it's a nasty, dictatorial mafia, shamelessly selling poorly made crappy products to the 'West' for years and laughing about it. keep up at the back there! nearly every (hardware in both the traditional meaning and the new 'digital' meaning) thing you buy is made in PRC and most major manufacturers in Europe use their components.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2020 7:49:22 GMT
So myself, Peterboat and Naughtyfox believe that the panfaces, or slopes if you prefer, are responsible for 'planting' this virus in order to speed the one party state's economic domination of the world. Anyone else in? Although I quite like the Chinese as people (there are so many races of them, or different genetic varieties you could say, it's a huge part of the world what they call 'China'), I just don't like the so-called 'Communist' 'government'. We all know it's a nasty, dictatorial mafia, shamelessly selling poorly made crappy products to the 'West' for years and laughing about it. Also, as I have said, you can't blame them for it - the British have treated the Chinese appallingly in the past: "The Opium Wars were two wars in the mid-19th century involving Great Qing and the British Government and concerned their imposition of trade of opium upon China. Opium can also be used as a psychoactive drug that changes the user's state of mind. Opium is also an addictive drug. More and more people grew addicted to opium. So, the British were able to export more and more opium. By selling this drug, the British slowly began to make more money on their exports to China than they spent on their imports of Chinese goods." How awfully nice of the British. Yes, we can learn a lot from history, but power has always been transient. At the expense of sounding repetitive...again...the thing which really matters is whether that power has good or bad intentions. The British Empire period was not exactly squeaky clean after all. Certainly I think our human race were going down a self destruct path and taking mother earth with us. I still hope more good will come out of this than bad.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2020 7:56:50 GMT
Optimism is a wonderful thing.
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Post by naughtyfox on Apr 2, 2020 8:01:22 GMT
We all know it's a nasty, dictatorial mafia, shamelessly selling poorly made crappy products to the 'West' for years and laughing about it. keep up at the back there! nearly every (hardware in both the traditional meaning and the new 'digital' meaning) thing you buy is made in PRC and most major manufacturers in Europe use their components. Yes - but it shouldn't be that way - things should be manufactured properly and to last. Every country has sold their peoples down the Swanee in the rush to get rich quick. Not to mention all the British farmers getting grants from the EU and importing thousands of cheap labourers from Eastern Europe rather than paying a decent wage for British people to work on the farms.
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Post by bodger on Apr 2, 2020 9:25:28 GMT
keep up at the back there! nearly every (hardware in both the traditional meaning and the new 'digital' meaning) thing you buy is made in PRC and most major manufacturers in Europe use their components. Yes - but it shouldn't be that way - things should be manufactured properly and to last. Every country has sold their peoples down the Swanee in the rush to get rich quick. Not to mention all the British farmers getting grants from the EU and importing thousands of cheap labourers from Eastern Europe rather than paying a decent wage for British people to work on the farms. there's no such thing as should and would .............. as the missus is prone to say - "if ifs and buts were pots and pans there'd be no need for tinkers" (Irish saying)
do you really think that the products of, let's say, the now defunct (and deservedly so) British Leyland would be more long lasting than the components that go to make up nearly everything that you buy today?
do you remember the days when everything was made in Japan and it was considered to be junk? I mean who in hell would buy a Japanese car?
I consider that your attitude smacks of parochialism, 'Little Britain' mentality and economic racism.
.......... and do you really think that Brits would prefer to work in the fields all day instead of sitting at home in their sink estate playing computer games and vandalising the local bus shelter?
We could go back to the days when benefits were minimal and folk were proud to go to work and ashamed of being on the dole. Unfortunately those days are long gone.
PS : please read the WARNING in your attachment - badgers will fuck you all year round. ................ oh! and you need to learn to read - I ain't a badger anyway. Bodging is a traditional British craft. Bodgers were skilled itinerant wood-turners, who worked in the beech woods on the chalk hills of the Chilterns. They cut timber and converted it into chair legs by turning it on a pole lathe, an ancient and very simple tool that uses the spring of a bent sapling to help run it.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2020 9:29:02 GMT
Although I quite like the Chinese as people (there are so many races of them, or different genetic varieties you could say, it's a huge part of the world what they call 'China'), I just don't like the so-called 'Communist' 'government'. We all know it's a nasty, dictatorial mafia, shamelessly selling poorly made crappy products to the 'West' for years and laughing about it. Also, as I have said, you can't blame them for it - the British have treated the Chinese appallingly in the past: "The Opium Wars were two wars in the mid-19th century involving Great Qing and the British Government and concerned their imposition of trade of opium upon China. Opium can also be used as a psychoactive drug that changes the user's state of mind. Opium is also an addictive drug. More and more people grew addicted to opium. So, the British were able to export more and more opium. By selling this drug, the British slowly began to make more money on their exports to China than they spent on their imports of Chinese goods." How awfully nice of the British. the thing which really matters is whether that power has good or bad intentions. What a lovely sentiment. After all, the British Empire was a trading enterprise that evolved into the global machine it became. The subjection of the empire was justified with the notion that the purpose of empire was to improve its subjects and elevate them to equal status through education. It wasn't about exploitation and profit at all. There was even a term for it - 'the white man's burden'. So as Ross points out, the opium trade was something that evolved out of a set of circumstances that initially were unforeseen but not to be ignored once the profit margin was tangible. In fact it was so good that the trade was enforced with a very literal gun to the head of the Chinese when they objected to the poverty and misery it produced. Of the Irish famine of 1845 it is sometimes said that 'God sent the blight, but the famine was created by the English'. And in Bengal in 1770, there was so much education and edification of the masses going on that only a million died. How heavy the white man's burden must have seemed. Remind me what was that road to Hell was paved with again? And the funny thing is, there was not a shred of conspiracy in any of it. It just happened, and the engine was greed. ETA there's a great documentary narrated by Brian Cox (the Scottish one) which examines the importance of the Clyde in days past and its links to the importation of various substances to Britain including opium. The title of the series it is part of is called 'Addicted to Pleasure'. If you want to watch it you'll most likely have to download it. pirateproxy.page/torrent/8035008/BBC_Addicted_to_Pleasure_2of4_Opium_PDTV_x264_AAC_mp4?ckattempt=1
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