Hockey_saint

I did a trip up and down Egypt just after (literally a few days) after the Mount Sinai incident a few years ago with G-Adventures. Did all the touristy things (Pyramids and Sphinx in Giza, Cairo museum etc, train down to Aswan to see Abu Simbel, sailboat up the nile, drive into the Sahara and then Luxor and the balloon ride over the valley of the kings). It was dead cheap (about £500 plus flight for a week and a half)...so I suppose I'm not best at just hotels and resorts but I'd say Egypt is definitely worth seeing.

My old mum was born where he's from (although she's lived in Southampton most of her life) and had a stroke before lockdown. I mentioned that she'd been unwell and obviously the rest (except the stroke) and he sent a lovely twitter message to her. Such a lovely fella. Absolutely one of a kind.

He truly is a legend......and a bloody nice bloke too.

Shame, I thought his artwork was fantastic.

What happened to Gecko_saint?

Great result today. I think it's great that Ralph played a more senior team than I expected.

Kaffer is definitely a word they used (although it just means unbeliever in Arabic) but they also used words like "sambo" (which my 95 year old grandfather was in the habit of calling me...he was 95 after all) and "coloureds". They used a lot of terms to describe the locals but yeah that was the most common but when they said "coloureds" they usually meant mixed-raced people, kaffer was more used as slang.

That article was on the money but it reminded me of going to Graceland and hearing Elvis refer to the guy that sang "(your love is) lifting me higher" as the "coloured Elvis"....it was a bit awkward listening to it then but yeah, as I said, it was a classification and something someone like him should have known about.

As I say above. one's been used to degrade a people...i.e."no coloureds" which was a sign often used in South Africa and people of colour hasn't got that historic connotation. It's "clean" of such historic negative use.

Certainly was a poor choice as "coloured" is a classification made up by eugenicists and such. But perhaps an apology would have sufficed and he wouldn't have had to fall on his sword. It's not like he repeatedly did it.

Apartheid South Africa never referred to anyone as "people of colour".....they were quite partial to the term "coloured" though.

This is brilliant I never knew the hamburglar was an antifa operative! https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/09/trump-voter-hotline-inundated-by-prank-calls

I thought we'd all established that long ago.

If he didn't go out of his way at every opportunity to avoid blaming far right groups and kept blaming antifa then you may have a point but the link is obvious.

Except the backing of far right groups from both or Trump's father's membership of the KKK. The comparisons are perfectly reasonable.

Loving this line.

Sadly so did a large population of this country. It's the same story isn't it? given the right conditions, people will fall for anything.

Except he was born in Hawaii. Any birther argument against is based on his name and colour of skin. Although his mother can trace her ancestry back to the colony of Virginia.....a darnslight further back than the Drumpf family.

Yeah, when I visited Te Papa in Wellington I was amazed by some of the military exhibits there.

That's why their Lamb is so good! All those Scottish sheep farmers! Yeah, I've been to NZ a few times (initially, it was just a short stop between the US and Oz on my RTW trip but I found I actually preferred the usually wet islands and did a month long tour using their version of National Express from Queenstown....which made me feel quite old....to the North Island and that was pretty awesome. I planned to return at the end of the year but....covid obviously). My grandad served in Burma just after the battle of Imphal and his dad....who, thanks to him sadly passing of COVID (I found out his dad's age).....was a world war one veteran (I used to talk to him about it a lot)....and a 2nd Boer war one....that always facinated me until I found out his dad was 50 when he was born (he died at 52 probably from injuries sustained at the battle of Mons.....he spent most of the war as a POW). Obviously NZ wasn't in much trouble during world war one or two (unless the battle of the coral sea went the wrong way) but I always found the gun implacements on Mount Victoria in Devonport near Auckland very interesting. The main problem I have with celebrating a lot of world war two is a lot of people make up their own ideas of what happened to promote their nationalistic views over here....Farage being a good example but yep, I find that bit of time really interesting too. (btw here's a photo of my great-grandad, the Boer war veteran in a POW camp in world war one and here's his son, my grandad in Tokyo after the war.)

I thought you wrote Timmy for a minute there. But so was Alan Turing and the Polish who'd already cracked the code.

Been to paihia. Anyhow.....Did you know Charles Lightholler (officer on the Titanic) is in that movie under another name? He owned a sailboat and used it. I obviously disagree with your points though as Germany was taking a massive gamble right up until and during the invasion of France helped only by the complete ineptitude of the French and British command. We were boxed in mostly by our own lack of strategic where with all and arrogance. We were then assisted by whatever it was that told Hitler to stop outside Dunkirk...it could have been to save the tanks, to force a peace deal or whatever but be in no doubt, Hitler could have crushed the entire BEF right there and then. Churchill came in and just before that Lord Halifax was making overtures to Italy. We were in SERIOUS, SERIOUS trouble. Whilst it is true Hitler probably couldn't have stopped the Navy crushing whatever operation sealion had in store but even then it was only thanks to his foolish directive to target civillians and stop targeting air bases that let us off the hook but even then Russia was slowly but surely at the cost of millions of it's own citizens pushing the Nazis back. We got the US involved sure but apart from that, I'm afraid your British.....English....nationalism is a bit misplaced. World war two, for the British, whilst we celebrate winning, was one cock up after another....and let's not even go into our absolute humiliations in Asia before the battle of Imphal..

Because that would cause problems for the brexit boy's paymaster.....Putin. It's blindingly obvious, divide and conquer.

He also called one of the founders of these "proud boys" a "very good person".....i.e. he was one of the tiki rioters a while back. I hope he loses as the tories would be utterly stuffed without him.

Who's to say they're not the same?