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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2021 22:38:11 GMT
I'm outta here.
So long.
You are all very special.
We love you.
Hell I always preferred golf anyway now where's Faldo and Ballasteros when you need them?
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Post by perkwunos on Jan 13, 2021 23:08:04 GMT
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Post by Jim on Jan 14, 2021 11:01:51 GMT
Whale meat again. Do try to get it right! I knew someone who was there at the time would correct me.
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Post by Jim on Jan 15, 2021 9:42:11 GMT
Someone asked "Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?" Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England, wrote this magnificent response: "A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace - all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief. Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing - not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility - for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is - his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty. Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults - he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness. There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege. And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff - the Queensberry rules of basic decency - and he breaks them all. He punches downwards - which a gentleman should, would, could never do - and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless - and he kicks them when they are down. So the fact that a significant minority - perhaps a third - of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think 'Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that: * Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are. * You don't need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man. This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws - he would make a Trump. And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: 'My God… what… have… I… created? If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set."
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Post by JohnV on Jan 15, 2021 11:38:39 GMT
Someone asked "Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?" That was very good Jim
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2021 12:50:49 GMT
Yes we'll written.
There is a word for it which has an S at the beginning and ends in UM.
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Post by Jim on Jan 15, 2021 13:18:00 GMT
Yes😳 we'll 😲written. There is a word for it which has an S at the beginning and ends in UM. Well! My only contribution was to find it, recognise it's worth and copy and paste it, keeping the attribution in, naughtyfox take note!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2021 10:55:14 GMT
Has any POTUS since the war had a better, more gifted chance of a glorious period of power to establish themselves as 'a great' than Joe ?
Removing the rhetoric and just looking at the damage wrought to the image of the USA around the world, let alone at home, and you see the chance Biden has to restore, regroup and unify the country whilst actually having to do very little other than carry out repairs.
For the first time I'm aware of, both Republicans and Democrats are looking for a way to just get back to where they were four years ago.
I hope it is a 'new dawn' for the USA ... right or wrong I believe the world needs their stabilising influence, which has been absent for a few years.
Rog
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Post by JohnV on Jan 20, 2021 10:58:43 GMT
I hope it is a 'new dawn' for the USA ... right or wrong I believe the world needs their stabilising influence, which has been absent for a few years. Rog I hope you are right Rog, however the depth of the trenches the two sides have dug and the amount of fake news flying around is concerning. Add that to a society of gun owners and there is a recipe for real disaster
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2021 11:01:41 GMT
I hope enough have been shocked into sense by the five deaths, and untold damage wrought in the Capitol Hill insurgency.
Of course I agree, the hardcore have not gone away ... just dug a little deeper.
Rog
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Post by Telemachus on Jan 20, 2021 11:05:18 GMT
Has any POTUS since the war had a better, more gifted chance of a glorious period of power to establish themselves as 'a great' than Joe ? Removing the rhetoric and just looking at the damage wrought to the image of the USA around the world, let alone at home, and you see the chance Biden has to restore, regroup and unify the country whilst actually having to do very little other than carry out repairs. For the first time I'm aware of, both Republicans and Democrats are looking for a way to just get back to where they were four years ago. I hope it is a 'new dawn' for the USA ... right or wrong I believe the world needs their stabilising influence, which has been absent for a few years. Rog I don’t envy his task though. To us, the global view of USA is important because we like to see it as some kind of world-stabilising influence. But raising the international reputation of USA is not a vote winner. Americans in general are very inward-looking, they barely know any world exists outside of the USA apart from maybe Canada and Mexico. Anyway I am pleased to see that funny little Republican Mitch McConnel is now unrestrainedly dissing Trump. Let’s hope his lead results in Trump being barred from ever holding further office.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2021 11:07:59 GMT
Has any POTUS since the war had a better, more gifted chance of a glorious period of power to establish themselves as 'a great' than Joe ? Removing the rhetoric and just looking at the damage wrought to the image of the USA around the world, let alone at home, and you see the chance Biden has to restore, regroup and unify the country whilst actually having to do very little other than carry out repairs. For the first time I'm aware of, both Republicans and Democrats are looking for a way to just get back to where they were four years ago. I hope it is a 'new dawn' for the USA ... right or wrong I believe the world needs their stabilising influence, which has been absent for a few years. Rog I believe the damage is done, the divide is deeper than we think, and will take longer than four years to heal...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2021 11:22:45 GMT
Speaking to a friend of mine over there, he is on about election being stolen, Muslim invasion, Biden will never be my president, etc. It is deeply ingrained and I can still see civil war as a possibility
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2021 11:40:23 GMT
Worrying times ... we'll see how today goes and the threat of 'trouble' around state capitals.
Rog
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2021 11:57:43 GMT
Worrying times ... we'll see how today goes and the threat of 'trouble' around state capitals. Rog It will only take one national guardsman with a rifle,. I see they have stood down a few that had reactionary sympathies already 😷
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