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Quicknick wrote:A 'z' in critising. 'Gotten'. Are you American?

People who live in badly-spelt huoses shouldn't thrwo stnoes.

Anyway, the 'z' is older than the 's' and is a retention in American English rather than an invention. And do you fancy telling Shakespeare he got it wrong with 'gotten'?

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Quickenthetempo wrote:...it's written in Belgian.

It's really not.

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Leggy Mountbatten

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The advantage is meant to be with the penalty taker. It’s a penalty, the clue is in the word penalty. The keeper can dive in any direction he chooses but can’t move off his line until the ball has been struck. He isn’t meant to be given any slight advantage to help him save it. So, maybe he should ...

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Fundació Joan Miró. Casa Milà aka La Pedrera - particularly at night. Parc Guell. Day trip to Figueras for the Dalí museum. Montserrat as above.

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ClaretTony wrote:You can’t. You can take in clear plastic bottles up to 500ml but not with dark liquid in them.

So, that's yes to 500ml of hydrofluoric acid. No to 400ml of Pepsi.

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Stupid is a very generous description of someone who forged documents and tried to pass them off as originals. He clearly knew it was the wrong thing to do as he also tried to deceive his own staff over them. I agree. He broke the law. Brazenly. Deliberately. With a disregard for it that suggests h...

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Imploding Turtle wrote:He forged expenses claims. 'Thief' is a perfectly adequate summation.

Facts, as usual, are passing you by.

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Imploding Turtle wrote:That tells you quite a lot about those 12,000 people.

Perhaps they know that "thief" would be an entirely inaccurate description of him in respect of the offences of which he was found guilty.

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Damo wrote:12,000 people thought a convicted thief was the best option

There was no financial gain to him through his offences as was commented on by the judge in his case.

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Anyone but the British government at a guess. Meanwhile we can ignore the fact the UK had limited access and still managed to do this, which would suggest a lax security process in the EU... Agreed. By definition, if the chain failed in the UK, the EU should have been more circumspect. But I guess ...

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I'm pretty sure this was the thread where people were mocking me for not wanting our government to have access to everyone's biometric data due to the chances they'll misuse it. Well... https://i.gyazo.com/f7eda3a7030633807836a0ee3e1f5ef3.png The EU is at the start of the chain of mismanagement. Ar...

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mentioned the moon landings to my 12 year old granddaughter only this Morning....she's having none of it!!! :D At that age, you're allowed to be like that. Your faculties haven't fully formed and you're instinctively inclined to kick against anything, no matter what, that your elders say. There is ...

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Dark Cloud wrote:Mine's 87 and seems to think that mobile phones are the work of the devil...

Does she post as South West Claret?

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... tries to look surprised... fails...

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Had to go on one last week. There had been a speed change on a road I used to drive daily (40 down to 20) so I was six over instead of 4 under as I thought... it is amazing how much you forget when you have been driving so long. While I wouldn’t volunteer I actually found it very useful. Some of it...

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Imploding Turtle wrote:You are not the person who decides what does or doesn't work as a joke.

Yes I am.

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You said this: "But at least it is a joke - which distinguishes it from Brand's comment." Do you see why when someone reads this and sees that you are distinguishing a joke from what Brand said that someone could think you consider Brand's comment not to be a joke? You literally said that it is dis...

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So if you know she wasn't serious then you know that her comment was non-serious. So what's another word for a non-serious comment? I'll give youa hint, the one i'm thinking of is 4 letters and begins with a J. Jerk. I already said, "Brand's joke only works..." Not whether it's funny or not but con...

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So you think that Jo Brand is seriously calling for people to throw battery acid at politicians? Seriously? That's your argument? No. But then, if you could read my comment, oh, all of two comments ago, you'd know that. When you foam at the mouth, maybe it gets hard to see through the spittle. I do...

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Rileybobs wrote:The comments were clearly not incitement to violence though, in the same way that my comments about Nick Knowles aren't. And that's why the matter has been dropped by the police.

On that at least, we agree. Her comments were clearly not a police matter as things stand.

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A joke doesn’t need structure. According to the dictionary (I can’t believe I even need to consult the dictionary for a definition), a joke is ‘a thing that someone says to cause amusement or laughter’. If I said that someone should chin Nick Knowles, I would be doing this to cause amusement. I wou...

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David Baddiel defended Brand by quoting one of her stock gags - the way to a mans hart is through the breast with a bread knife. While this is edgy, it could not be construed as an excitement... had she left it at “some politicians” there would be no great outcry... just Jo Brand looking to regain ...

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If I said that the contestants of Love Island should be shot would that not be seen as a joke? How about if i said that someone should chin Nick Knowles? You don’t have to find the idea of those things happening to anybody funny for it to be a joke. No. They're not jokes. They may fit one criterion...

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Well firstly Brand didn’t wish death upon anyone as far as I can tell. If you said you hoped I died a slow painful death but didn’t mean it then of course it would be a joke. I’m pretty confident that Brand doesn’t actually want anyone to throw acid on anyone else - so on that basis what she said w...

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The joke being that Farage is so despicable that he would be more deserving of battery acid being thrown at him than milkshake. Not sure how or why that needs explaining. It was very poorly, if at all considered and also not very funny. Obviously a joke nonetheless though. OK. You have a different ...

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Caballo wrote:I never said it was funny! It was still a joke non the less.

I'll give you a chance as well then. What is the "joke"? I know it will lose its humour in the explanation but please describe the joke.

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Oh boy. I love that all he Farage jokes are coming out (ha!) now that he's opposed to people making offensive jokes. Here's one about drowning gay people. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3HB77S_mAo&feature=youtu.be" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Of course, no one's saying drowning ...

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https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1139236999464927233 The US are blaming Iran for attacks on 2 tankers in the Gulf of Oman today (they solved that case pretty ******* fast). I'm quite sure they'd blame Iran no matter who actually did it, and it makes no sense for Iran to do it since they know Amer...

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But since you bring it up, i decided to go through the two quotes, your "almost verbatim" version and the real quote, and look for words that appear in both of them, and it doesn't look very good for your "almost verbatim" version I found "it", "to", "unpleasant" and "milkshake". That's it. :lol: A...

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There are literally no two connecting words in your "almost verbatim" presentation of what she said that is actually in what she said. If I was literally going to try to pull someone up for that, I'd literally make sure I knew what "literally" meant, maybe with a dictionary link. Or I'd at least ch...

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You said it was "almost verbatim". There are literally no two connecting words in your "almost verbatim" presentation of what she said that is actually in what she said. You embellished her quote to make it appear more outrageous, probably because the original quote wasn't outrageous enough for you...

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Almost verbatim, you say... Replying to a question about the state of UK politics, she said: Almost Verbatim Quibbling about nothing (I clearly said it wasn't verbatim) rather than disagreeing with the substance. If I'd missed some substantial part of the "joke", I know you'd have pointed it out. W...

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The problem for those supporting the joke is that there is no joke. She, almost verbatim, says, "Farage is unpleasant. People are throwing milkshakes at him. It would be better to throw dangerous substances." I'm sure it's possible to craft a joke about him that's a well-crafted bon mot, even if its...

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Imploding Turtle wrote:I want to still be around to enjoy being right.

Of course, the great thing is, even if you're not, you'll still be convinced that you are.

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He did think the 10 commandments outdated, actually. He reduced them to 2. 1. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength. 2. Love your neighbour as yourself. I think you omitted part of that teaching, "On these two commandm...

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Claret-On-A-T-Rex wrote:People who are homophobic, racist, islamophobic and xenophobic. i.e. Boris Johnson.

Is he homophobic (even by accusation)?

Is there anyone who might normally be considered "on the right" who isn't "far right" in your view? I was looking for an example.

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Context is important. Brand was making a joke as a comedian. Count Dankula was making a joke as the producer of a comedy vehicle. Carl Benjamin was making a statement as a political commentator, he's not a comedian. This is what i don't get about you former free speech warriors. We all thought it w...

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I’ll defend Jo Brand too. I think her comment was ill-judged but, in the context of a radio programme that is clearly set up to get laughs out of controversial subjects, it shouldn’t be interpreted as inciting violence. It’s sometimes difficult to know when you may be crossing the line in comedy. I...

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I thought we lived in an era when our elected representatives were subject to unpleasant threats and we had examples of real harm being done to them so it was only right that we all, in whatever context, should be careful not to inflame situations or give succour to the small fringes of violent acti...

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Claret-On-A-T-Rex wrote:Duh.

Honestly is that the best you can do?

Seriously, where does it stop? Boris Johnson is not usually referred to as "far right" but you see him thus. Where is your dividing line?

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I'll defend her. She SAID something, she didn't DO something, also she didn't LIE and print it on the side of a bus and drive up and down the country in it. In my opinion there is nothing can be said that is offensive to proponents of the far-right such as Farage, Tommy Yaxley Robertinson, Boris Jo...

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"It's just a joke, like on Top Gear" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7CnMQ4L9Pc" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; I love how politically correct the anti-political correctness brigade get when they think they can be reasonably offended by something. You see, people like me think that ...

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Yes. It's definitely working well. No doubt... Nigerian player deliberately slaps the ball in. But that's OK.

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This thread is indeed about me. Thank you for contributing to my thread about me. I look forward to your next contribution to this thread about me. Don't be unnecessarily, and not very credibly, modest. They're always all about you. But you would save lots of time to get on with the rest of your li...

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aggi wrote:..The donation system that the Brexit party set up...

You mean PayPal? Which Tories and Labour also accept.

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