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If you have to have it spelt out for you then that explains your posts over the years. Tides turn and eventually oppressors face the consequences of their actions. If you had paid attention in your history classes you wouldn’t have to ask the question.

Has there ever been a POTUS with such a lack of understanding of world (or internal) affairs than Donald Trump? Putin has been stringing him along? No shit, Sherlock! https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/26/trump-and-zelenskyy-hold-very-productive-ceasefire-talks-in-rome The trouble is that it is entirely possible that Trump will wake up tomorrow or the next day and tell us that Putin is the good guy and Zelensky is the bad guy again.

Weston has had the ignore list explained to him a hundred times but still fails to understand how it works. I will try again. When you have someone on ignore their post appears only as a greyed out box telling you that they have posted and the poster is on your ignore list. You can then happily carry on and ignore it or you can hit the options button which gives you…some options! One of them is to read the post if you so choose. So you do not have to take the person off of your ignore list, read the post and then put them back as Weston seems to believe, bless him. As you also make clear, if someone else quotes a post from someone on your ignore list, it appears as the quote in their post as it does for any post. So then, it is entirely possible to have someone on your ignore list yet still see their posts, either intentionally if you so chose for specific posts, or unintentionally when an ignored poster is quoted. It really isn’t rocket science yet there are some who don’t seem to understand how it works. For further information, the options given are:- Show this post Stop ignoring posts by XXXX Change ignore preferences

A timely reminder of the evils of the oppression of minority groups. A lesson still not learnt 80 years later. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/holocaust-survivors-march-auschwitz-80-years-after-camps-liberation-2025-04-24/

It sounds like someone has been listening to Nigel Farage again. It’s sad that someone with such a great intellect gets sucked in by someone with such a small intellect. “Young men of fighting age?”. Have you ever stopped to think that they are coming here because they don’t want to fight or live in a country where that is the only option if you stay? Perhaps you should try and look past your tribalist instincts and consider that all human beings deserve to be treated as equals? The vast majority of people turning up on these shores are genuine asylum seekers. Just because some aren’t doesn’t mean that all of them should be tarred with the same brush nic. You call me a racist but you are the one who clearly has an issue with “foreigners”.

Glasgow was Alpine? Really? Anyone know what happened to View From The Top?

Farage and his parties are catnip to people like these sadly. We have only had a Tory and an independent leaflet so far. Labour don’t bother around here but I am surprised the LibDems don’t make more of an effort. I expect the Reform candidates will do well around the Kent coastline as the small boats are still a big issue for the locals. We have a very good independent Borough councillor here and I am hoping that they will displace the Tory from the County Council. It will be interesting to see how the protest votes are split between the LibDems and Reform. I don’t think local councils should be politically motivated at the best of times - local issues should be the driving force - but having a bunch of bigoted racists on local councils is far from ideal.

It must have been very tough to return home without so many shipmates. I can’t imagine what it must have been like out there. Deep respect to you and your colleagues.

Agree about the dentist. I had a new dentist allotted to me last year (NHS). He is very young, lovely guy but the three times I have been to see him he has tried to persuade me to go for “private” options which, of course, cost a great deal more. I was supposed to have a clean last time under the normal check up arrangement and suggested that I went for a “private” more extensive clean for about £70 as my teeth were heavily stained. Given the amount of red wine I drink it would be a few days before they get stained again! Another by product of drinking red wine is black staining of the tongue. The first time he met me he was very concerned about my tongue and couldn’t understand why I wasn’t. He actually arranged for me to go to hospital for tests as he was worried that I might have cancer!! I was tempted to make a remark about how it was amusing that he is a black guy with a pink tongue and I am a white guy with a black tongue, but thought better of it!

Trump is now coming across as King Canute. As if Putin gives a stuff about what Trump thinks. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cvg7jnywn5dt

Jock land? Seriously? I remember when your posts about football were worth reading. These days you just come across as a bitter and twisted old man who can’t get his message across without puerile name calling and can barely string a sentence together without resorting to Anglo-Saxon invective. I thought that with great age was supposed to come great wisdom? You just come across as a jilted lover. He’s gone. Let it go.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-shares-then-deletes-condolences-over-popes-death-2025-04-22/

Better news for Farage than Badenoch. https://news.sky.com/story/robert-jenrick-vows-to-bring-coalition-together-to-end-tory-reform-fight-13354004

MLG is a pedant and clearly cannot help himself. What is your excuse?

Didn’t bother with The Last of Us first series when it came out as not into zombies but after reading several favourable reviews we gave it a binge watch before series 2 started last week. Totally hooked now and the second episode of the new series last night went total GoT. Gripping stuff with an unexpected twist so early on (if you aren’t familiar with the game).