TERRY ‘ “ If you come here, you’ll find no mass grave, no evidence that children were ever so buried, and a local police force casting their eyes to heaven and saying “Yeah, a few bones were found – but this was an area where Famine victims were buried”. PRONE. Rhymes with Zappone.
Maybe you’re too narrow minded and belligerent @Git
And aggressively reactive to anything I post
Perhaps if you bothered to follow that link
You would have found a letter from Terry Prone (Mrs) on behalf of the so called Sisters of whatever
There you would have found the origin of So?
And if you paid even more attention – rather than rare up like a Hogget Ram at this time of the year
You would have noticed that So?
Is a frequent response of mine to anything addressing Terry Prone
GiggidyGoo
Oh. I’m slow this morning. Sorry about that reaction Vanessa.
You may have noticed that you quoted the same letter
And indeed from the same paragraph yourself
But I’m very familiar with the reaction
So no harm done
Have a good one
Charger Salmons
Old-school leathering there V.
A pleasure to watch it in action.
GiggidyGoo
Ah sure you’re not averse to receiving the odd leathering yourself now Charger. Even as recently as yesterday? At least the two of us are prepared to apologize.
Charger Salmons
There’s something not quite right about two women fighting anyway.
You’re the gentler sex for a reason.
Mary (Never) Wong
That was beautiful Vanessa
You can leather me anytime
Especially in a latex number
@Git
Please don’t ever assume you speak for me, nor allow yourself think I was apologising to you. Consider it a pat on the back – if you must
And Charage, both you and I have come across each before, out and about like, here and there
I’ll only speak for myself, the late Frilly, MGG, Porky Kweeve, HOTD – yeah yeah so
And you know full well I don’t deserve your condescending mocking faux sexist pig Gentler Sex
Least Not here – of all the places you and I have been known to fester
Sorry now I bothered breaking my fast
Charger Salmons
More,more.
Don’t stop matron !
Brother Barnabas
not surprised you want it to continue – first bit of passion you’ve experienced from a woman since the 1950s
Charger Salmons
The funny thing is I haven’t the foggiest idea what or who she is talking about.
Not a Scooby.
She must have been at the cooking sherry.
GiggidyGoo
@Nessie.
What are you on about? Where did the “Please don’t ever assume you speak for me,” come from, or what are you referring to?
Maybe you’re too aggressive or narrow-minded? Not everything is about you.
Ah sure you’re not averse to receiving the odd leathering yourself now Charger. Even as recently as yesterday? At least the two of us are prepared to apologize
Your own words – Emphasis mine
Then please be exactly explicit about who the two of us are are
Oh, i forgot to mention Nessie And aggressively reactive to anything I post
Mary (Never) Wong
Man labels woman overtly aggressive, disagreeable and self-absorbed.
Refers to her as monster who lives in lake
GiggidyGoo
Tom or Mary fail to read the full thread.
Mary (Never) Wong
I hang on to your every utterance Giggidy.
You know that!
I live to read your always dazzling insights, marvel at your erudition and sing, yes, I loudly sing, your
mellow syllables out loud like no-one’s there.
Well then Ah sure you’re not averse to receiving the odd leathering yourself now Charger. Even as recently as yesterday? At least the two of us are prepared to apologize.
Makes absolutely no sense
At all
And let me be clear
Before you double down again
I read less that a half the threads here
You clearly replied to my first post here in days
With a short tempered sneer
I provided you a reference
You swung again
A few third parties rowed in
And now it becomes about Charage apologising over on an old old News papers thread
Get help for yourself Git
In the time between my last post, and this, I did a few laps of the bay in a pinkish twilight, and I’ve walked the beach with the dog,
Hitting the Hot Tub now, then grabbing a shower
So take your time to get a gript
Of yourself
Night all
GiggidyGoo
Well Nessie you’ve just shown (once again mind you), your true unadulterated colours.
All about you eh?
I haven’t replied to one of your own created threads for months. You choose to reply to mine. I make a mistake, and apologize for it.
But you? Charger isn’t too far off with the cooking sherry comment I’d think. I’m glad I didn’t travel the M11 today.
Maybe we should meet to sort out our differences – maybe at a hotel on a roundabout, but not on a weekend night – eh? You can wear a tee shirt with some bold italic text art emblazoned on it so that it’s easy to identify you. Or maybe bring a slideshow? Or a Joe Dolan recording of “ Its you, it’s you it’s you”
You took a swing at me
And then in your haste to land another you deliberately ignored the source – of what was also your own quote
Like as if using it/ parsing it was ok for you
But not for me ?
That makes you an ignorant thug
But I believe it’s Your chauvinism that’s your blind spot
Nothing strange or odd about that
Plenty of ye here
And I’m sure Charage will help you out with it
He must be thrilled you plugged his own sorries anyway
You’re a slug going back over your own slimy trail
This isn’t about me at all
Take a screen break for yourself
And find there’s more to life and a Bank Holiday weekend
Go for a dip, get a bit of rumpy pumpy, have a bonfire and singsong with friends
Meanwhile, I’m an hour off FT and a rockstar SW (9 btw) looking for some company
So maybe one last time while I still think I’m up to it
Cheerio
Broadsheet
Mary (Never) Wong
Are you finally going to quit?
Please don’t disappoint us this time
Broadsheet can ban me anytime they want
And shur they didn’t hesitate to dump the Frilly Keane column
Their gaff their rules
Until then I’ll come and go as I please
Try harder lads
And just a quick state of affairs update for everyone
9 winds are definitely too frisky for me at this hour of my life
Maybe it’s time to take up canal boating
Or just give in altogether and sign up for an over 50s cruise
It awaits us all
Charger Salmons
It’s good to see the big Hula Hoops snack becoming more available in Ireland – they’re the perfect accompaniment to an early evening G&T.
But still no sign of Twiglets and old-style pork scratchings in the shops.
I also miss the girls coming round the East End boozers on a weekend night with baskets of whelks,cockles and seafood sticks.
A packet of salt and vinegar Taytos isn’t quite the same.
Good times.
Charger Salmons
Spitfire Paddy on RTE 1 now.
The story of Irish RAF ace Brendan Finucane.
What a man.What a hero.
Cian
83% of the complaints [about the Tampax ad] were from women and 17% were from men.
misogynist
/mɪˈsɒdʒ(ə)nɪst/
Learn to pronounce
noun
a person who dislikes, despises, or is strongly prejudiced against women
Another dumbasm
GiggidyGoo
+ I didn’t know you had to identify your sex when you made a complaint.
Cian
You need to supply a name + address. Also a title “Mr”, “Ms” etc.
For the gender-neutral titles you can work out sex from the name a lot of the time.
GiggidyGoo
Didn’t know that. So when you make a complaint about an ad your complaint won’t be considered unless you declare whether you’re a Mr. or a Mrs? Doubt that. In fact I’ve made a complaint to to the advertising authority without declaring what sex I am and have had it dealt with. I’d think it’s similar throughout these boards.
SOQ
Surely sex would be important in considering complaints to ads of this nature? If the sex ratio was the opposite way around, I very much doubt if it would have been taken down.
GiggidyGoo
@ Cian. There is a box on the form as it happens, to mention if you’re a Mr., Mrs etc. If you don’t fill that box in, will the form be returned to you?
Cian
No. You can choose a non gendered title like “Dr” or “Prof”. You can choose “other” and type in a title of your choice. Or choose a title of “none”.
As I already said, if you choose a Mr or Ms they can take that as male and female. If you choose Dr and your name is Brian (or Mary) – they can guess you are male (or female).
The ones that put in a genderless title (or no title) and a genderless name (E.g Pat, Terry) are the only ones that you can’t classify.
Brother Barnabas
unisex names are forbidden under the czech registry act
just so everyone knows
Janet, dreams of big guns
it’s almost as if wemon are educated to hate their bodies, think their periods are dirty and embarrassing and ought to be kept secret, I bet those wemon were all above a certain age, the same kind you wouldn’t be able to ask their partner to but sanitary products for them etc
Andyourpointiswhatexactly?
Yup. I haven’t seen it but my Mum hated it.
Mary (Never) Wong
Remarkable isn’t it.
Tom J
You got to get them up there girls.
Paulus
Corporal Jones?
sidhe
it’s a matter of comfort
Johnny Green
…as a long time reader,amazing how you managed avoid commenting,its the sheer in your face mendacity and disingenuous hiding, the constant name changes,do you really think people are that stupid..yeah oh hi first time on here…your fingers must have be twitching the whole time,unless say like you had a different log in to troll under…but its your first time commenting so…
i can guess if you like based on your many prior troll user names…..so long this one ?
sidhe
for the last time
I have one log in johnny
Mary (Never) Wong
one too many I’d say
sidhe
yes, well that’s open to debate
Charger Salmons
The Examiner reports that the Defence Forces are short of critical staff.
Surely there must someone left who can wave the white flag ?
Mary (Never) Wong
Like at Dunkirk?
Jack
White flag is surrender or parlay. Not retreat
Mary (Never) Wong
Whatever you want to call it. That’s your choice
Joe F
For someone who claims to be English old boy, your English isn’t that great. Read that last sentence of yours, you clown!
Mary (Never) Wong
He lives with his oul fella in a Transit van
Steptoe
And
Son
Joe F
Yeah they were actually quite funny, but I laugh at this clown a different way! Marvelous .
Praetorian.
Nine tours overseas on UN/EUFOR service over twenty one years to places where the Brits usually left a mess.
Anchors…with a W.
Clampers Outside
Fair dues Prae
Charger Salmons
The Balkans ?
A problem more of the EU’s making than Blighty’s.
But the late Paddy Ashdown was a good man to help sort it out.
Rob_G
Indeed – we do have shortages in the positions of “fodder for IEDs” and “people to bully new recruits until they kill themselves”; I believe the British Army has the market cornered on these specialists.
Charger Salmons
Defence Force ?
The only thing defending Ireland with any capability is the Royal Air Force.
Rob_G
Go fight and lose another war against Iceland.
Brother Barnabas
referring to the cod war or the football?
same difference…lost both
Charger Salmons
Blighty gives you the Royal National Lifeboat Institute as a freebie too.
Jeez lads, it’s bantz.
Putin would never dare invade.
Jack’s Army would remobilise…
Rosette of Sirius
Blighty RNLI nothing. It doesn’t work that way.
Charger Salmons
You probably want to know who is patron of the RNLI then.
The clue is in the name.
Mary (Never) Wong
So stupid. Actually beyond stupid.
GiggidyGoo
The lifeboat service receives no UK government funding and less than 2% of the RNLI’s total funding comes from government sources.
The Irish Government gives €150,000 each year to the RNLI.
Interestingly, an Elizabeth O’Kelly of Co. Laois bequeathed €6m to the RNLI.
Wouldn’t you think Her Majesty would put her hand in her pocket too?
Rosette of Sirius
Having volunteered for RNLI Ireland – an independent charity – for many years, having served of one its its advisory councils and having helped develop a series of governance policies – including how it’s funded, I know exactly how the charity operates, how it’s led, governed and its patron.
Neither Her Majesty’s Government nor the great British public fund Irish operations. The organisation as a whole does not take government funding that would adversely impact its independence. It may take donations but only those with no policy, delivery or reporting requirements.
It’s one of the best run charities I know of and until you’re out there on a boat in the depths of winter looking for someone lost at sea, and everyone on board is a volunteer, will you realise how pathetic your Rule Britannia sentiment is.
Rob_G
Maybe you could continue in your benevolant activities by giving Charger some sudocrem for that buuurn, Rosette.
Charger Salmons
The overwhelming majority of donations for the RNLI come from private citizens in the UK,mainly through collection boxes in pubs and charity events.
Ireland enjoys this largesse whilst contributing a small amount itself because it couldn’t afford to set up its own rescue service.
Rather like the RAF protecting the skies over Ireland.
Frankly I don’t care where the money comes from provided lives are saved but perhaps you might display a little more gratitude.
Cú Chulainn
Ha, exactly who are the RAF protecting us from ? the only country in the world to exhibit hostility to Ireland is.. yes, the same country of the aforementioned RAF..
Rosette of Sirius
The RNLI in Ireland predates the State by decades and continued to do so following independence in 1922. You might be surprised to learn that the Commissioners for Irish Lights has continued in the same fashion. It has nothing, nothing to do with affordability.
But if affordability is the hill you want to die on, Riddle me this…. Why does it fall to a charity to provide lifeboat and lifeguard services or the great British Public?! Bit of a cop out from Her Majesty’s Government, no?
I will say though that after the slating the organisation got last year for their international programs – work outside of these fair isles – from those ‘honourable fellows’ the Tories, their finding actually increased. Classy.
And as for the funding – you simply don’t know what you’re talking about.
Finally, it’s not the great British public stationed in Ireland – saving lives off this island’s coastline. It’s the great Irish public – regardless of their nationality. They are the ones who deserve our gratitude and I know for a fact would smack you for that stupid Rule Britannia horseplop.
GiggidyGoo
Fair play Rosette.
Charger Salmons
You’re spoofing and you know it.
There is no separate charity funding for Irish RNLI stations.
The idea that donations in Irish pubs could fund all the stations and pay for new boats is ludcirous.
The Irish government’s €150,000 is literally a drop in the Irish Sea.
93% of RNLI funding comes from public donations and the majority of that is from British donors.
Put a sock in it sailor boy.
And just be a bit more grateful.
Rosette of Sirius
Keeps digging. Or doggy paddling. Whatever. Because you genuinely have no ideas how the charity works.
Tell you what, next time you’re in Poole, I’ll meet you off the train, buy you a fish and chips, give you a tour around the boat yard and you can find out from their CFO all about their funding.
RNLI is an honourable, venerable and selfless organisation and charlatans like you have no place in even the utterance of their name.
But yes. Should you find yourself in their need, they will be they will be there for you. Be it Cornwall, Anstruther or the New Docks in Galway. They’ll save your chubby white butt. Or die trying.
Papi
I believe they call that blackened salmon. Ouch.
Charger Salmons
You said you’re a volunteer.
Somebody has to hold a coin bucket on the high street I suppose.
The Irish RNLI is funded by donations the majority of which originate in the UK.
It is not a separate charitable enterprise and you’re being dishonest to suggest it is.
Rosette of Sirius
For a charity to operate in Ireland it must register as a charity in Ireland. That’s not to say it can’t operate as a subsidiary of another legal entity. After all a charity and a nonprofit is after all a tax designation. And to avail of that designation it must be registered for tax exemption with the Revenue Commissioners. To do so Ireland it must also have its own local board. Which it does. The RNLi does not split out fundraising reporting by region in any of its discrete operating entities be it Ireland, Scotland or England and Wales.
Anyways. I’ve shaken buckets. No shame in that. My firm – an Irish based firm – has also donated over the years at least in fair market value about 8 figures in pro bono services and and other in kind donation that will never show up on any annual report.
What you think you know is not what you know.
GiggidyGoo
Oddly enough, Charger, the crews of the lifeboats are volunteers. No buckets mind.
Mary (Never) Wong
Donations in Irish pubs paid for the IRA terrorist campaign also by the way. You didn’t win that time either. So embarrassing
Papi
Who do you think we all believe,, Chardonnay?
Mary (Never) Wong
I suppose people feel they are doing their good deed for the day by conversing with the guy, and let’s not get too personal, but many chatting with him probably are feeling lonely themselves. Like attracts like as they say or is it faeces attracts bluebottles?
Rosette of Sirius
I’m generally not very engaged day to day and especially at weekends – I simply don’t have the time. This one is a tad different. As and from Friday, we’re staycationing for the next couple of weeks and Saturday and Sunday I was home alone and happy to play along.
Today it’s a bit more personal. My family, through the generations, has a long and close relationship with the RNLI and there’s no way I’m letting this mountebank besmirch and devalue the principles and deeply selfless spirit of an Organisation I care so deeply about.
Mary (Never) Wong
Fair play Rosette
Obviously my comments were not directed to you at all. Sufficient to say though that the initially provocative comment was so stupid that it merited only being deleted. It’s shameful that Broadsheet allow lies and slander to remain on the website but will draw the line if you suggest to another commenter they should purchase an intimate rubber friend for example. I realise resources are scarce but there are such things as ethics and standards in journalism
Matt Pilates
What? (bit hard of hearing)
fluffybiscuits
The mentally deranged commentators on the ‘news’ website thejournal seem to post “reopen the pubs” everytime they post covid news.
Right wing academic is an oxymoron, if you are right wing you cannot be an academic – major lolz
Jack
By that logic academics can have no political views. Lolz
Clampers Outside
Thomas Sowell, and many others….
Rob_G
Imagine being so arrogant as to think that people that agreed with you have a monopoly on scholarship…
Nigel
In fairness, by modern right-wing standards, most respected conservative scholars are practically communists.
Birdie
Just heard the headlines of the indo on the wireless:
‘Have sex online’ to limit spread of virus, advises HSE – Young people are asked to avoid intimate contact
Lots of Demolition Man sex scenes will be occurring across the country. Lovely.
Ha! So true. They’re great lads for some rabble rousing.
Clampers Outside
Spank that monkey!
Flip that bean!
GiggidyGoo
I can’t figure out though how to physically have sex online. I remember on The Naked Camera how a fellow went into an internet cafe with a packet of rashers and sausages, and asked the fellow there to email them over to his brother in the US. Kinda impossible.
Brother Barnabas
ask johnny ~ he’d be the *expert* at that sort of thing round here
Brother Barnabas
ah just a little joke, johnny kiddo
dont be so uptight
Brother Barnabas
[on the repeated ‘oul lad’ thing… I’d bet I’m a fair bit younger than you are – perhaps you’re being thrown by the erudition and sagacity of my comments]
Clampers Outside
‘sagacity’… love it :)
Brother Barnabas
that was a response to a comment from johnny – he was insulting me in his own inimical style*, but seems to have deleted it since
(*determined stabs in the dark that couldnt be further from reality)
Mary (Never) Wong
I would have thought touching oneself intimately and often, and then metamorphosis of said self-love to soi-distant sex demi-god status was more your forte Brother.
Brother Barnabas
and johnny’s awkwardly protective special friend finally arrives
Mary (Never) Wong
See my comment to Rosette above
It appears Broadsheet is your awkward special friend trying to protect your blushes. Did you get up on your high horse and complain? That’s the extent of your saddlery abilities these days I’d say
Slightly Bemused
Though not in the papers, I just heard of the death of John Hume. I am sure that his legacy will go down in Irish history as a man who, with others, made peace on this island not just a possibility, but a reality.
Rest in Peace, and sincere condolences to your family.
SOQ
+1
Rest in Peace John.
Clampers Outside
+1… Just heard, listening to Radio 1
Clampers Outside
I’m on the move again…
Why? Because of the wee bairn. Gotta have more space for the childer to play outside so heading to Tramore… raise a surfer dude, maybe.
He’ll have more healthy outdoor distractions in Tramore we think… woohoo!! :0)
is that the house you are selling? Pity, it’s really nice.. Good luck with the move!
Clampers Outside
It is Rob. Herself took it from ram shackled to what it is now. I just put a polish on it :)
Bodger
Good luck, Clampers. Great move.
Clampers Outside
Thanks Bodger!
Slightly Bemused
Best of luck with the move. Having somewhere to let little kids run around and tire themselves out is something every parent should have access to, if only for their own sanity :-)
Clampers Outside
Hear, hear!
Brother Barnabas
nice, clamps
you did a good job on the stairs… think I remember you saying you were sanding and painting them (?)
the naked photo of yourself on the fridge door is a small bit weird but each to their own
@bodger – this could be a feature – commenters’ homes, sort of a Through the Keyhole thing
Slightly Bemused
It would need to be a big keyhole to get my mess through it :-)
Beautiful house, Clampers. Lots of love went into that.
Clampers Outside
Thanks Slightly, I’ll let her good self know you said so :)
Janet, dreams of big guns
what a lovely home Clamps !
Clampers Outside
Thank you Janet :)
Clampers Outside
LOL!
Aye, those stairs… not the most fun of jobs.
I dug out that patio too. Shifting 26 tonne of soil and over 8 tonne of rubble over 4 months stacked and bagged in the garden.
Got a gang down then and we shifted 21 tonne of the soil and the rubble through the house by wheelbarrow in ONE day!
Kept 5 bags back for top soil :)
(Patio was laid professionally though, I know my limits!)
Brother Barnabas
the garden looks great – would love to see some ‘before’ photos of the house
sidhe
I remember your comments on the patio
after all that hard work! either way, best of luck to you and mrs clampers and wee clampers
Tramore is gorgeous too
Johnny Green
..yeah yeah long time reader…first time commenting…how many name changes/log ins now….wow you’ve really taken to this commenting thing for a first timer,yeah yeah i’ve been reading the comments all this time…..your ridiculous!
sidhe
:)
Clampers Outside
Cheers Sidhe :)
Johnny Green
why do you have keep changing your log in ‘sid’ the long time reader…..
sidhe
I have one log in johnny
Mary (Never) Wong
Good luck with move. Lovely home
Clampers Outside
Thank you Mary :)
Charger Salmons
Good luck old sport.
I’d say you’ve spent many a happy lockdown hour in that tidy garden with a glass or three.
Clampers Outside
True, we’d good weather that first weekend, and the first proper weekend we had in it…. Its the patios first proper summer with the garden finished :)
Johnny Green
Chance of winning the electoral college:
Biden 91%
Trump 8%
Chance of winning the most votes:
Biden 99%
Trump 1%
North Carolina RCP Average:
2016:
Trump 47% (+1)
Clinton 46%
Today:
Biden 50% (+5)
Trump 45%
National Poll:
Biden 49% (+9)
Trump 40%
NORTH CAROLINA:
Biden 48% (+4)
Trump 44%
GEORGIA:
Biden 46% (+1)
Trump 45%
@YouGovAmerica/@CBSNews 7/28-31
– at 4.6 million positive cases in the US-will hit 5 million in the next ten days,200-250,000 dead by election day.
Nigel
So with voter supression, Trump casting doubts on the legitimacy of the election, sabotaging mail-in voting by basically destroying the postal service (during a pandemic no less,) and any help that might be forthcoming from foreign friends, it’s still about 70-30 in Trump’s favour.
Johnny Green
oh don’t be so easily distracted and triggered Nigel:)
sidhe
perhaps you should do the same, johnny?
Johnny Green
…as a long time reader.
sidhe
it was merely a suggestion that you take a little of what you dish out so freely
:)
Johnny Green
…your new around here or you keep saying,you contribute nothing.
give how new you are,what did i do to encourage and deserve all your attention,im not looking for any mates if thats what you think but eh thanks….
rather proprietary comments for a newbie,suggestions and free advice and your so new-come on out from behind the curtain hon!
sidhe
I have one log in johnny
Nigel
No, I mean not allowing black people to vote. Long-term Republican strategy, that.
Johnny Green
from Marijuana Business Factbook:
the cannabis industry employed around 165,000-210,000 workers in 2019.
the number is expected to jump 50% by year’s end — or, 240,000-295,000 workers.
-the U.S. cannabis industry is expected to add almost 250,000 full-time jobs between 2020 and 2024.
“But the coronavirus has proven to be a boon for legal pot shops, as customers fear the risks associated with inhaling questionable products and are nervous about letting sellers into their homes.”
..many close industry watchers believe the current circumstances are pushing more Americans into state-legal markets. Revenues are expected to hit $17 billion this year, according to New Frontier Data — a 25 percent spike over 2019….
“Alcohol prohibition was largely ended as a result of the Great Depression, as the country was in desperate need of new sources of revenue,” Krane argued. “It went from something that was seen as politically impossible to a political necessity in a very short amount of time, and I think we’re seeing a similar situation here.”
The Netherlands just closed the window on applications for 10 growing licenses to supply its coffee shops-they had 149 applications to grow recreational weed-will do a ‘johnny green’ roll up on whats going on in The Netherlands.
Charger Salmons
Big piece in the failing Irish Times on a book by Longford ” investigative ” journalist Peter Geoghegan on the DUP funding the Vote Leave campaign with dark money.
If you’re really patient and wade through the usual anti-Brexit and conspiracy theory dross you get to the crucial bit.
Check out the names on the front of the book recommending it – Carol Cadwalladr or Correction Carol as she’s known at The Observer and bonkers Brexit barmpot Fintan O’Foole.
Mate, the good ship Brexit has sailed.The leaky tub MV Remain is listing badly.Abandon ship.
Brother Barnabas
got a chuckle out of that one, charger
glimpses of vintage charger from time to time of late – you’re right off the booze or back on it
Brother Barnabas
new persona launching September 1 – keep em peeled
Matt Pilates
It’s the Irish TImes, Sir. Hardly a hotbed of insight; busy woke signalling and ‘levreaging’ tropes from the Guardian.
The latest from the utterly appalling Polly Filla of Sandymount:
“Róisín Ingle: I’m menstruating as I write this. And I’m mad as all bloody hell”
Celebrating the oligarchic undermining of your democratic processes to pwn the libs.
(Or, just celebrating it cause it’s awesome!)
Charger Salmons
National Crime Agency – no evidence of Russian interference.
BS resident tinfoil hat wearer with Blu-Tack over his phone camera and eating mung bean stew straight from the pot – it’s Putin’s fault Corbyn was so useless.
You pays your money and takes your pick …
Nigel
Yup, future elections will be decided by what the winners can succesfully cover up and get away with. Big incumbent advantage there. WINK.
Charger Salmons
Incumbents always have an advantage.
Rather like the wasted £9 million Cameron’s government spent on sending a Vote Remain leaflet to every British household which they didn’t have to declare as part of campaign funding.
Doubt the Longford hack mentioned that in his anti-Boris and anti-Brexit organ-grinding.
That’s probably why he’s more likely to win a Wurlitzer than a Pulitzer…
Nigel
Oh my gosh! Deep concern about dodgy campaign spending! Stamp it out in the name of Parliamentary Democracy and National Sovereignity! The oligarchs won’t like it!
Formerly known as @ireland.com
@Charage, I know you are a pathetic troll. However, Britain is now part of the Russian empire. They found o evidence because they didn’t look.
Oh Lord, late at night down under.
You on the turps again ?
scottser
If you are as intelligent and well read as you like everyone to believe then do you believe everything that comes out of Johnson’s mouth, knowing his penchant for lies and bluster?
You could be so much more charger, but you’re just a shill for an idiot.
Charger Salmons
Up your game lad.
All you do lately is snivel.
Boris is a democratically-elected leader of one of the world’s major economies with a large parliamentary majority and a continuing lead in the opinion polls.
You’re an anonymous non-entity on a minor internet forum.
Go figure.
scottser
Its not a competition, its a genuine question and one you are unable to answer.
Which is to be expected, I suppose.
Mary (Never) Wong
ok you’re a hopeless idealist there scottser
Charger Salmons
‘ period ‘
Oh I say, well played.
I always feel sorry for their London man Denis Staunton.
He must hate living there with all the anti-English bile he pours out.
He once compared a London cabbie calling him mate to the Black and Tans torching Cork.
I kid you not.
Matt Pilates
Saw him in London once. Cycling a Brompton foldie in the nip along Bayswater Road. Never looked back.
Lush
:)
SOQ
Dogs Are Being Trained To Sniff Out COVID-19 With Stunning Accuracy
“When you have a disease, your body odor changes,” James Logan, head of the Department of Disease Control at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told CBC News Kids. “And dogs are an excellent example of being able to detect smells and also learn those smells. That’s what we’re aiming to do with COVID-19.”
The Silencing of Dr. Judy Mikovits with Guests Dr. Judy Mikovits, Kent Heckenlively & Larry Klayman.
Some interesting claims- especially that corona-viruses are more likely in those who had vaccines created within animal cell linings. This is backed up the (limited) peer reviewed research available.
The Silencing of Dr. Judy Mikovits with Guests Dr. Judy Mikovits, Kent Heckenlively & Larry Klayman.
Some interesting claims- especially that corona-viruses are more likely in those who had vaccines created within animal cell linings. This is backed up by (limited) peer reviewed research available.
Enjoyed that doc on RTE1 just now about Brendan Finucane aka ‘Spitfire Paddy’… one of Britain’s top Spitfire pilots… Top 3… Fair dues :)
…. RTE1 +1…just ended. Probably on the Player.
Charger Salmons
I mentioned him a few weeks ago on here and some numpty got outraged that the Brits called him Paddy.
He was called Paddy by all his fellow RAF pilots – ANZAC,Polish and othe nationalities – because of their enormous respect for him.
A Wing Commander at 21.
What a man.
Revered in Blighty,ignored at home.
Formerly known as @ireland.com
@Charage, I think you will find many Irish people in Britain were given the nickname “Paddy”, back in those times.
Clampers Outside
It’s annoying when people get annoyed over the use of ‘Paddy’ :) Where the nick name with pride I say!
Clampers Outside
One of the most beautiful sounds in the world is the sound of a Spitfire engine :)
Someday ill hear it live… Bucket list stuff that.
Matt Pilates
Lads; give it a rest and hit the absinthe. The Tuesday pages will be here in 45 mins,,,
First thing we see: Terry Prone…. gawd.
TERRY ‘ “ If you come here, you’ll find no mass grave, no evidence that children were ever so buried, and a local police force casting their eyes to heaven and saying “Yeah, a few bones were found – but this was an area where Famine victims were buried”. PRONE. Rhymes with Zappone.
So?
Not my kind of celebrity. But sure whatever floats your boat.
So?
https://www.broadsheet.ie/2017/12/19/mocking-the-survivors/
You’re not making much sense. Repeating ‘So?’ doesn’t give a great insight into your thoughts.
did you read the letter fully?
she’s referencing Prone’s dismissive use of ‘So?’ at the end of one of the paragraphs
Maybe you’re too narrow minded and belligerent @Git
And aggressively reactive to anything I post
Perhaps if you bothered to follow that link
You would have found a letter from Terry Prone (Mrs) on behalf of the so called Sisters of whatever
There you would have found the origin of So?
And if you paid even more attention – rather than rare up like a Hogget Ram at this time of the year
You would have noticed that So?
Is a frequent response of mine to anything addressing Terry Prone
Oh. I’m slow this morning. Sorry about that reaction Vanessa.
that was nice, giggidy
You may have noticed that you quoted the same letter
And indeed from the same paragraph yourself
But I’m very familiar with the reaction
So no harm done
Have a good one
Old-school leathering there V.
A pleasure to watch it in action.
Ah sure you’re not averse to receiving the odd leathering yourself now Charger. Even as recently as yesterday? At least the two of us are prepared to apologize.
There’s something not quite right about two women fighting anyway.
You’re the gentler sex for a reason.
That was beautiful Vanessa
You can leather me anytime
Especially in a latex number
With due respect to all concerned
@Git
Please don’t ever assume you speak for me, nor allow yourself think I was apologising to you. Consider it a pat on the back – if you must
And Charage, both you and I have come across each before, out and about like, here and there
I’ll only speak for myself, the late Frilly, MGG, Porky Kweeve, HOTD – yeah yeah so
And you know full well I don’t deserve your condescending mocking faux sexist pig Gentler Sex
Least Not here – of all the places you and I have been known to fester
Sorry now I bothered breaking my fast
More,more.
Don’t stop matron !
not surprised you want it to continue – first bit of passion you’ve experienced from a woman since the 1950s
The funny thing is I haven’t the foggiest idea what or who she is talking about.
Not a Scooby.
She must have been at the cooking sherry.
@Nessie.
What are you on about? Where did the “Please don’t ever assume you speak for me,” come from, or what are you referring to?
Maybe you’re too aggressive or narrow-minded? Not everything is about you.
Ah sure you’re not averse to receiving the odd leathering yourself now Charger. Even as recently as yesterday? At least the two of us are prepared to apologize
Your own words – Emphasis mine
Then please be exactly explicit about who the two of us are are
Yes, Nessie. The two of us being Charger and I. Referring to me above, and Charger, who are quite prepared to accept when we have been incorrect. https://www.broadsheet.ie/2020/07/31/saturdays-papers-44/#comment-2223922
As I say, it’s not all about you.
So, the stage is yours.
Oh, i forgot to mention Nessie
And aggressively reactive to anything I post
Man labels woman overtly aggressive, disagreeable and self-absorbed.
Refers to her as monster who lives in lake
Tom or Mary fail to read the full thread.
I hang on to your every utterance Giggidy.
You know that!
I live to read your always dazzling insights, marvel at your erudition and sing, yes, I loudly sing, your
mellow syllables out loud like no-one’s there.
Well then
Ah sure you’re not averse to receiving the odd leathering yourself now Charger. Even as recently as yesterday? At least the two of us are prepared to apologize.
Makes absolutely no sense
At all
And let me be clear
Before you double down again
I read less that a half the threads here
You clearly replied to my first post here in days
With a short tempered sneer
I provided you a reference
You swung again
A few third parties rowed in
And now it becomes about Charage apologising over on an old old News papers thread
Get help for yourself Git
In the time between my last post, and this, I did a few laps of the bay in a pinkish twilight, and I’ve walked the beach with the dog,
Hitting the Hot Tub now, then grabbing a shower
So take your time to get a gript
Of yourself
Night all
Well Nessie you’ve just shown (once again mind you), your true unadulterated colours.
All about you eh?
I haven’t replied to one of your own created threads for months. You choose to reply to mine. I make a mistake, and apologize for it.
But you? Charger isn’t too far off with the cooking sherry comment I’d think. I’m glad I didn’t travel the M11 today.
Maybe we should meet to sort out our differences – maybe at a hotel on a roundabout, but not on a weekend night – eh? You can wear a tee shirt with some bold italic text art emblazoned on it so that it’s easy to identify you. Or maybe bring a slideshow? Or a Joe Dolan recording of “ Its you, it’s you it’s you”
Get lost in other words.
Would you ever grow up and take responsibility
You took a swing at me
And then in your haste to land another you deliberately ignored the source – of what was also your own quote
Like as if using it/ parsing it was ok for you
But not for me ?
That makes you an ignorant thug
But I believe it’s Your chauvinism that’s your blind spot
Nothing strange or odd about that
Plenty of ye here
And I’m sure Charage will help you out with it
He must be thrilled you plugged his own sorries anyway
You’re a slug going back over your own slimy trail
This isn’t about me at all
Take a screen break for yourself
And find there’s more to life and a Bank Holiday weekend
Go for a dip, get a bit of rumpy pumpy, have a bonfire and singsong with friends
Meanwhile, I’m an hour off FT and a rockstar SW (9 btw) looking for some company
So maybe one last time while I still think I’m up to it
Cheerio
Broadsheet
Are you finally going to quit?
Please don’t disappoint us this time
Who weeweeed in your crisps Wong?
Broadsheet can ban me anytime they want
And shur they didn’t hesitate to dump the Frilly Keane column
Their gaff their rules
Until then I’ll come and go as I please
Try harder lads
And just a quick state of affairs update for everyone
9 winds are definitely too frisky for me at this hour of my life
Maybe it’s time to take up canal boating
Or just give in altogether and sign up for an over 50s cruise
It awaits us all
It’s good to see the big Hula Hoops snack becoming more available in Ireland – they’re the perfect accompaniment to an early evening G&T.
But still no sign of Twiglets and old-style pork scratchings in the shops.
I also miss the girls coming round the East End boozers on a weekend night with baskets of whelks,cockles and seafood sticks.
A packet of salt and vinegar Taytos isn’t quite the same.
Good times.
Spitfire Paddy on RTE 1 now.
The story of Irish RAF ace Brendan Finucane.
What a man.What a hero.
83% of the complaints [about the Tampax ad] were from women and 17% were from men.
Bloody misogonists!
https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2020/0802/1156983-tampax-ad-complaints/
misogynist
/mɪˈsɒdʒ(ə)nɪst/
Learn to pronounce
noun
a person who dislikes, despises, or is strongly prejudiced against women
Another dumbasm
+ I didn’t know you had to identify your sex when you made a complaint.
You need to supply a name + address. Also a title “Mr”, “Ms” etc.
For the gender-neutral titles you can work out sex from the name a lot of the time.
Didn’t know that. So when you make a complaint about an ad your complaint won’t be considered unless you declare whether you’re a Mr. or a Mrs? Doubt that. In fact I’ve made a complaint to to the advertising authority without declaring what sex I am and have had it dealt with. I’d think it’s similar throughout these boards.
Surely sex would be important in considering complaints to ads of this nature? If the sex ratio was the opposite way around, I very much doubt if it would have been taken down.
@ Cian. There is a box on the form as it happens, to mention if you’re a Mr., Mrs etc. If you don’t fill that box in, will the form be returned to you?
No. You can choose a non gendered title like “Dr” or “Prof”. You can choose “other” and type in a title of your choice. Or choose a title of “none”.
As I already said, if you choose a Mr or Ms they can take that as male and female. If you choose Dr and your name is Brian (or Mary) – they can guess you are male (or female).
The ones that put in a genderless title (or no title) and a genderless name (E.g Pat, Terry) are the only ones that you can’t classify.
unisex names are forbidden under the czech registry act
just so everyone knows
it’s almost as if wemon are educated to hate their bodies, think their periods are dirty and embarrassing and ought to be kept secret, I bet those wemon were all above a certain age, the same kind you wouldn’t be able to ask their partner to but sanitary products for them etc
Yup. I haven’t seen it but my Mum hated it.
Remarkable isn’t it.
You got to get them up there girls.
Corporal Jones?
it’s a matter of comfort
…as a long time reader,amazing how you managed avoid commenting,its the sheer in your face mendacity and disingenuous hiding, the constant name changes,do you really think people are that stupid..yeah oh hi first time on here…your fingers must have be twitching the whole time,unless say like you had a different log in to troll under…but its your first time commenting so…
i can guess if you like based on your many prior troll user names…..so long this one ?
for the last time
I have one log in johnny
one too many I’d say
yes, well that’s open to debate
The Examiner reports that the Defence Forces are short of critical staff.
Surely there must someone left who can wave the white flag ?
Like at Dunkirk?
White flag is surrender or parlay. Not retreat
Whatever you want to call it. That’s your choice
For someone who claims to be English old boy, your English isn’t that great. Read that last sentence of yours, you clown!
He lives with his oul fella in a Transit van
Steptoe
And
Son
Yeah they were actually quite funny, but I laugh at this clown a different way! Marvelous .
Nine tours overseas on UN/EUFOR service over twenty one years to places where the Brits usually left a mess.
Anchors…with a W.
Fair dues Prae
The Balkans ?
A problem more of the EU’s making than Blighty’s.
But the late Paddy Ashdown was a good man to help sort it out.
Indeed – we do have shortages in the positions of “fodder for IEDs” and “people to bully new recruits until they kill themselves”; I believe the British Army has the market cornered on these specialists.
Defence Force ?
The only thing defending Ireland with any capability is the Royal Air Force.
Go fight and lose another war against Iceland.
referring to the cod war or the football?
same difference…lost both
Blighty gives you the Royal National Lifeboat Institute as a freebie too.
Jeez lads, it’s bantz.
Putin would never dare invade.
Jack’s Army would remobilise…
Blighty RNLI nothing. It doesn’t work that way.
You probably want to know who is patron of the RNLI then.
The clue is in the name.
So stupid. Actually beyond stupid.
The lifeboat service receives no UK government funding and less than 2% of the RNLI’s total funding comes from government sources.
The Irish Government gives €150,000 each year to the RNLI.
Interestingly, an Elizabeth O’Kelly of Co. Laois bequeathed €6m to the RNLI.
Wouldn’t you think Her Majesty would put her hand in her pocket too?
Having volunteered for RNLI Ireland – an independent charity – for many years, having served of one its its advisory councils and having helped develop a series of governance policies – including how it’s funded, I know exactly how the charity operates, how it’s led, governed and its patron.
Neither Her Majesty’s Government nor the great British public fund Irish operations. The organisation as a whole does not take government funding that would adversely impact its independence. It may take donations but only those with no policy, delivery or reporting requirements.
It’s one of the best run charities I know of and until you’re out there on a boat in the depths of winter looking for someone lost at sea, and everyone on board is a volunteer, will you realise how pathetic your Rule Britannia sentiment is.
Maybe you could continue in your benevolant activities by giving Charger some sudocrem for that buuurn, Rosette.
The overwhelming majority of donations for the RNLI come from private citizens in the UK,mainly through collection boxes in pubs and charity events.
Ireland enjoys this largesse whilst contributing a small amount itself because it couldn’t afford to set up its own rescue service.
Rather like the RAF protecting the skies over Ireland.
Frankly I don’t care where the money comes from provided lives are saved but perhaps you might display a little more gratitude.
Ha, exactly who are the RAF protecting us from ? the only country in the world to exhibit hostility to Ireland is.. yes, the same country of the aforementioned RAF..
The RNLI in Ireland predates the State by decades and continued to do so following independence in 1922. You might be surprised to learn that the Commissioners for Irish Lights has continued in the same fashion. It has nothing, nothing to do with affordability.
But if affordability is the hill you want to die on, Riddle me this…. Why does it fall to a charity to provide lifeboat and lifeguard services or the great British Public?! Bit of a cop out from Her Majesty’s Government, no?
I will say though that after the slating the organisation got last year for their international programs – work outside of these fair isles – from those ‘honourable fellows’ the Tories, their finding actually increased. Classy.
And as for the funding – you simply don’t know what you’re talking about.
Finally, it’s not the great British public stationed in Ireland – saving lives off this island’s coastline. It’s the great Irish public – regardless of their nationality. They are the ones who deserve our gratitude and I know for a fact would smack you for that stupid Rule Britannia horseplop.
Fair play Rosette.
You’re spoofing and you know it.
There is no separate charity funding for Irish RNLI stations.
The idea that donations in Irish pubs could fund all the stations and pay for new boats is ludcirous.
The Irish government’s €150,000 is literally a drop in the Irish Sea.
93% of RNLI funding comes from public donations and the majority of that is from British donors.
Put a sock in it sailor boy.
And just be a bit more grateful.
Keeps digging. Or doggy paddling. Whatever. Because you genuinely have no ideas how the charity works.
Tell you what, next time you’re in Poole, I’ll meet you off the train, buy you a fish and chips, give you a tour around the boat yard and you can find out from their CFO all about their funding.
RNLI is an honourable, venerable and selfless organisation and charlatans like you have no place in even the utterance of their name.
But yes. Should you find yourself in their need, they will be they will be there for you. Be it Cornwall, Anstruther or the New Docks in Galway. They’ll save your chubby white butt. Or die trying.
I believe they call that blackened salmon. Ouch.
You said you’re a volunteer.
Somebody has to hold a coin bucket on the high street I suppose.
The Irish RNLI is funded by donations the majority of which originate in the UK.
It is not a separate charitable enterprise and you’re being dishonest to suggest it is.
For a charity to operate in Ireland it must register as a charity in Ireland. That’s not to say it can’t operate as a subsidiary of another legal entity. After all a charity and a nonprofit is after all a tax designation. And to avail of that designation it must be registered for tax exemption with the Revenue Commissioners. To do so Ireland it must also have its own local board. Which it does. The RNLi does not split out fundraising reporting by region in any of its discrete operating entities be it Ireland, Scotland or England and Wales.
Anyways. I’ve shaken buckets. No shame in that. My firm – an Irish based firm – has also donated over the years at least in fair market value about 8 figures in pro bono services and and other in kind donation that will never show up on any annual report.
What you think you know is not what you know.
Oddly enough, Charger, the crews of the lifeboats are volunteers. No buckets mind.
Donations in Irish pubs paid for the IRA terrorist campaign also by the way. You didn’t win that time either. So embarrassing
Who do you think we all believe,, Chardonnay?
I suppose people feel they are doing their good deed for the day by conversing with the guy, and let’s not get too personal, but many chatting with him probably are feeling lonely themselves. Like attracts like as they say or is it faeces attracts bluebottles?
I’m generally not very engaged day to day and especially at weekends – I simply don’t have the time. This one is a tad different. As and from Friday, we’re staycationing for the next couple of weeks and Saturday and Sunday I was home alone and happy to play along.
Today it’s a bit more personal. My family, through the generations, has a long and close relationship with the RNLI and there’s no way I’m letting this mountebank besmirch and devalue the principles and deeply selfless spirit of an Organisation I care so deeply about.
Fair play Rosette
Obviously my comments were not directed to you at all. Sufficient to say though that the initially provocative comment was so stupid that it merited only being deleted. It’s shameful that Broadsheet allow lies and slander to remain on the website but will draw the line if you suggest to another commenter they should purchase an intimate rubber friend for example. I realise resources are scarce but there are such things as ethics and standards in journalism
What? (bit hard of hearing)
The mentally deranged commentators on the ‘news’ website thejournal seem to post “reopen the pubs” everytime they post covid news.
Right wing academic is an oxymoron, if you are right wing you cannot be an academic – major lolz
By that logic academics can have no political views. Lolz
Thomas Sowell, and many others….
Imagine being so arrogant as to think that people that agreed with you have a monopoly on scholarship…
In fairness, by modern right-wing standards, most respected conservative scholars are practically communists.
Just heard the headlines of the indo on the wireless:
‘Have sex online’ to limit spread of virus, advises HSE – Young people are asked to avoid intimate contact
Lots of Demolition Man sex scenes will be occurring across the country. Lovely.
Thought you were joking for a minute, only to find https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/have-sex-online-to-limit-spread-of-virus-advises-hse-39417584.html
Then again, it’s not new advice. https://www.sexualwellbeing.ie/sexual-health/sex-and-coronavirus/
which is a HSE website. And 19th June was when they posted the article.
Nothing like the Indo to have their finger on the pulse.
Ha! So true. They’re great lads for some rabble rousing.
Spank that monkey!
Flip that bean!
I can’t figure out though how to physically have sex online. I remember on The Naked Camera how a fellow went into an internet cafe with a packet of rashers and sausages, and asked the fellow there to email them over to his brother in the US. Kinda impossible.
ask johnny ~ he’d be the *expert* at that sort of thing round here
ah just a little joke, johnny kiddo
dont be so uptight
[on the repeated ‘oul lad’ thing… I’d bet I’m a fair bit younger than you are – perhaps you’re being thrown by the erudition and sagacity of my comments]
‘sagacity’… love it :)
that was a response to a comment from johnny – he was insulting me in his own inimical style*, but seems to have deleted it since
(*determined stabs in the dark that couldnt be further from reality)
I would have thought touching oneself intimately and often, and then metamorphosis of said self-love to soi-distant sex demi-god status was more your forte Brother.
and johnny’s awkwardly protective special friend finally arrives
See my comment to Rosette above
It appears Broadsheet is your awkward special friend trying to protect your blushes. Did you get up on your high horse and complain? That’s the extent of your saddlery abilities these days I’d say
Though not in the papers, I just heard of the death of John Hume. I am sure that his legacy will go down in Irish history as a man who, with others, made peace on this island not just a possibility, but a reality.
Rest in Peace, and sincere condolences to your family.
+1
Rest in Peace John.
+1… Just heard, listening to Radio 1
I’m on the move again…
Why? Because of the wee bairn. Gotta have more space for the childer to play outside so heading to Tramore… raise a surfer dude, maybe.
He’ll have more healthy outdoor distractions in Tramore we think… woohoo!! :0)
https://www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/no-15-morley-terrace-gracedieu-waterford-city-waterford/4444369#&gid=1&pid=20
is that the house you are selling? Pity, it’s really nice.. Good luck with the move!
It is Rob. Herself took it from ram shackled to what it is now. I just put a polish on it :)
Good luck, Clampers. Great move.
Thanks Bodger!
Best of luck with the move. Having somewhere to let little kids run around and tire themselves out is something every parent should have access to, if only for their own sanity :-)
Hear, hear!
nice, clamps
you did a good job on the stairs… think I remember you saying you were sanding and painting them (?)
the naked photo of yourself on the fridge door is a small bit weird but each to their own
@bodger – this could be a feature – commenters’ homes, sort of a Through the Keyhole thing
It would need to be a big keyhole to get my mess through it :-)
Beautiful house, Clampers. Lots of love went into that.
Thanks Slightly, I’ll let her good self know you said so :)
what a lovely home Clamps !
Thank you Janet :)
LOL!
Aye, those stairs… not the most fun of jobs.
I dug out that patio too. Shifting 26 tonne of soil and over 8 tonne of rubble over 4 months stacked and bagged in the garden.
Got a gang down then and we shifted 21 tonne of the soil and the rubble through the house by wheelbarrow in ONE day!
Kept 5 bags back for top soil :)
(Patio was laid professionally though, I know my limits!)
the garden looks great – would love to see some ‘before’ photos of the house
I remember your comments on the patio
after all that hard work! either way, best of luck to you and mrs clampers and wee clampers
Tramore is gorgeous too
..yeah yeah long time reader…first time commenting…how many name changes/log ins now….wow you’ve really taken to this commenting thing for a first timer,yeah yeah i’ve been reading the comments all this time…..your ridiculous!
:)
Cheers Sidhe :)
why do you have keep changing your log in ‘sid’ the long time reader…..
I have one log in johnny
Good luck with move. Lovely home
Thank you Mary :)
Good luck old sport.
I’d say you’ve spent many a happy lockdown hour in that tidy garden with a glass or three.
True, we’d good weather that first weekend, and the first proper weekend we had in it…. Its the patios first proper summer with the garden finished :)
Chance of winning the electoral college:
Biden 91%
Trump 8%
Chance of winning the most votes:
Biden 99%
Trump 1%
Estimated electoral college votes:
Biden 347
Trump 191
https://projects.economist.com/us-2020-forecast/president
North Carolina RCP Average:
2016:
Trump 47% (+1)
Clinton 46%
Today:
Biden 50% (+5)
Trump 45%
National Poll:
Biden 49% (+9)
Trump 40%
NORTH CAROLINA:
Biden 48% (+4)
Trump 44%
GEORGIA:
Biden 46% (+1)
Trump 45%
@YouGovAmerica/@CBSNews 7/28-31
– at 4.6 million positive cases in the US-will hit 5 million in the next ten days,200-250,000 dead by election day.
So with voter supression, Trump casting doubts on the legitimacy of the election, sabotaging mail-in voting by basically destroying the postal service (during a pandemic no less,) and any help that might be forthcoming from foreign friends, it’s still about 70-30 in Trump’s favour.
oh don’t be so easily distracted and triggered Nigel:)
perhaps you should do the same, johnny?
…as a long time reader.
it was merely a suggestion that you take a little of what you dish out so freely
:)
…your new around here or you keep saying,you contribute nothing.
give how new you are,what did i do to encourage and deserve all your attention,im not looking for any mates if thats what you think but eh thanks….
rather proprietary comments for a newbie,suggestions and free advice and your so new-come on out from behind the curtain hon!
I have one log in johnny
No, I mean not allowing black people to vote. Long-term Republican strategy, that.
from Marijuana Business Factbook:
the cannabis industry employed around 165,000-210,000 workers in 2019.
the number is expected to jump 50% by year’s end — or, 240,000-295,000 workers.
-the U.S. cannabis industry is expected to add almost 250,000 full-time jobs between 2020 and 2024.
https://thefreshtoast.com/cannabusiness/weed-workers-will-outnumber-computer-programs-by-end-of-2020/
this mornings Politico:
“But the coronavirus has proven to be a boon for legal pot shops, as customers fear the risks associated with inhaling questionable products and are nervous about letting sellers into their homes.”
..many close industry watchers believe the current circumstances are pushing more Americans into state-legal markets. Revenues are expected to hit $17 billion this year, according to New Frontier Data — a 25 percent spike over 2019….
“Alcohol prohibition was largely ended as a result of the Great Depression, as the country was in desperate need of new sources of revenue,” Krane argued. “It went from something that was seen as politically impossible to a political necessity in a very short amount of time, and I think we’re seeing a similar situation here.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/02/pandemic-illicit-marijuana-market-390175
The Netherlands just closed the window on applications for 10 growing licenses to supply its coffee shops-they had 149 applications to grow recreational weed-will do a ‘johnny green’ roll up on whats going on in The Netherlands.
Big piece in the failing Irish Times on a book by Longford ” investigative ” journalist Peter Geoghegan on the DUP funding the Vote Leave campaign with dark money.
If you’re really patient and wade through the usual anti-Brexit and conspiracy theory dross you get to the crucial bit.
” In his book Geoghegan addresses many fascinating issues in relation to “dark money”, Brexit and political funding but in the end admits his investigation into the DUP and CRC does did not answer the big question ”
Which is their way of saying he found no evidence to back up his loony theories.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/dup-s-brexit-ads-who-bankrolled-the-secretive-435-000-campaign-1.4320055
Check out the names on the front of the book recommending it – Carol Cadwalladr or Correction Carol as she’s known at The Observer and bonkers Brexit barmpot Fintan O’Foole.
Mate, the good ship Brexit has sailed.The leaky tub MV Remain is listing badly.Abandon ship.
got a chuckle out of that one, charger
glimpses of vintage charger from time to time of late – you’re right off the booze or back on it
new persona launching September 1 – keep em peeled
It’s the Irish TImes, Sir. Hardly a hotbed of insight; busy woke signalling and ‘levreaging’ tropes from the Guardian.
The latest from the utterly appalling Polly Filla of Sandymount:
“Róisín Ingle: I’m menstruating as I write this. And I’m mad as all bloody hell”
https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/r%C3%B3is%C3%ADn-ingle-i-m-menstruating-as-i-write-this-and-i-m-mad-as-all-bloody-hell-1.4319833
The worst “campaigning journalist” ever. Period. At least Una Mullally seems to have grown up and is giving it some.
Celebrating the oligarchic undermining of your democratic processes to pwn the libs.
(Or, just celebrating it cause it’s awesome!)
National Crime Agency – no evidence of Russian interference.
BS resident tinfoil hat wearer with Blu-Tack over his phone camera and eating mung bean stew straight from the pot – it’s Putin’s fault Corbyn was so useless.
You pays your money and takes your pick …
Yup, future elections will be decided by what the winners can succesfully cover up and get away with. Big incumbent advantage there. WINK.
Incumbents always have an advantage.
Rather like the wasted £9 million Cameron’s government spent on sending a Vote Remain leaflet to every British household which they didn’t have to declare as part of campaign funding.
Doubt the Longford hack mentioned that in his anti-Boris and anti-Brexit organ-grinding.
That’s probably why he’s more likely to win a Wurlitzer than a Pulitzer…
Oh my gosh! Deep concern about dodgy campaign spending! Stamp it out in the name of Parliamentary Democracy and National Sovereignity! The oligarchs won’t like it!
@Charage, I know you are a pathetic troll. However, Britain is now part of the Russian empire. They found o evidence because they didn’t look.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jul/31/evgeny-lebedev-jo-johnson-and-ian-botham-among-36-peerage-nominations-boris
Oh Lord, late at night down under.
You on the turps again ?
If you are as intelligent and well read as you like everyone to believe then do you believe everything that comes out of Johnson’s mouth, knowing his penchant for lies and bluster?
You could be so much more charger, but you’re just a shill for an idiot.
Up your game lad.
All you do lately is snivel.
Boris is a democratically-elected leader of one of the world’s major economies with a large parliamentary majority and a continuing lead in the opinion polls.
You’re an anonymous non-entity on a minor internet forum.
Go figure.
Its not a competition, its a genuine question and one you are unable to answer.
Which is to be expected, I suppose.
ok you’re a hopeless idealist there scottser
‘ period ‘
Oh I say, well played.
I always feel sorry for their London man Denis Staunton.
He must hate living there with all the anti-English bile he pours out.
He once compared a London cabbie calling him mate to the Black and Tans torching Cork.
I kid you not.
Saw him in London once. Cycling a Brompton foldie in the nip along Bayswater Road. Never looked back.
:)
Dogs Are Being Trained To Sniff Out COVID-19 With Stunning Accuracy
“When you have a disease, your body odor changes,” James Logan, head of the Department of Disease Control at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told CBC News Kids. “And dogs are an excellent example of being able to detect smells and also learn those smells. That’s what we’re aiming to do with COVID-19.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/dogs-trained-sniff-covid-19_l_5f203edcc5b69fd473123645?
The Silencing of Dr. Judy Mikovits with Guests Dr. Judy Mikovits, Kent Heckenlively & Larry Klayman.
Some interesting claims- especially that corona-viruses are more likely in those who had vaccines created within animal cell linings. This is backed up the (limited) peer reviewed research available.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=os6_XHo4bzY
The Silencing of Dr. Judy Mikovits with Guests Dr. Judy Mikovits, Kent Heckenlively & Larry Klayman.
Some interesting claims- especially that corona-viruses are more likely in those who had vaccines created within animal cell linings. This is backed up by (limited) peer reviewed research available.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=os6_XHo4bzY
Enjoyed that doc on RTE1 just now about Brendan Finucane aka ‘Spitfire Paddy’… one of Britain’s top Spitfire pilots… Top 3… Fair dues :)
…. RTE1 +1…just ended. Probably on the Player.
I mentioned him a few weeks ago on here and some numpty got outraged that the Brits called him Paddy.
He was called Paddy by all his fellow RAF pilots – ANZAC,Polish and othe nationalities – because of their enormous respect for him.
A Wing Commander at 21.
What a man.
Revered in Blighty,ignored at home.
@Charage, I think you will find many Irish people in Britain were given the nickname “Paddy”, back in those times.
It’s annoying when people get annoyed over the use of ‘Paddy’ :) Where the nick name with pride I say!
One of the most beautiful sounds in the world is the sound of a Spitfire engine :)
Someday ill hear it live… Bucket list stuff that.
Lads; give it a rest and hit the absinthe. The Tuesday pages will be here in 45 mins,,,