Really poor journalism in my opinion. Seems like it was cobbled together by different writers.
Opening sentence starts off with“The appalling crimes against humanity[link to report on Bucha massacre] allegedly committed by Russian soldiers against Ukrainians..” but by the middle of the article, it comes out with this line: “Russia even attempted to convene the UN Security Council to discuss atrocities [link to article regarding proposed UN discussion of Bucha] – which its forces were clearly responsible for – that it alleged were committed by Ukraine.”
The preceding paragraphs make no case as to why the Russians are now “clearly culpable” and can be paraphrased as “Well, they would deny culpability, wouldn’t they?”. The rest of the article is of a similar standard IMO.
hmmm
Fake News calling others Fake News for pointing out the fake in the news is peak 2022.
SOQ
Ex Pentagon senior advisor Colonel Douglas Macgregor has a very different take on what happened in Bucha. He makes the point that the white arm bands symbolise not being part of the war and he questions why the Russians would do such a thing when they were leaving.
“I’ve seen this before. I saw it in the run up to the Iraq war”
One other thing- he says that the Ukrainian army are known to have been killing people who wear the white arm bands. If that is correct then it completely changes the narrative.
Nigel
So it makes no sense for the Russians to kill Ukrainians so it can’t be happening but it does make sense for the Ukrainians to kill Ukrainians therefore big if true.
Fearganainm
Russian soldiers ‘discussed killing civilians’ in Ukraine in radio intercepts
“…According to Spiegel, which indirectly referenced people who had been present at the meeting at which the BND officers delivered the fresh evidence to a select group of MPs, the recordings “entirely invalidate Russia’s denials”. In one of the radio conversations, a Russian voice is heard telling someone how he and another soldier shot a person who had been on a bicycle. One of the many pictures of the atrocities to have gone around the world in recent days was of the corpse of a person next to a bicycle…”
Dinkum
It’s gathering pace all over the west
Let’s face it we should ask is the situation in Ukraine worth a global nuclear war?
The war drum is banging and not one independent war crime inspection as been carried out to see if indeed Russia is guilty.
War is a nasty business and remember NATO and it’s WMD in Iraq
Until the UN has conducted a full forensic investigation and it’s proven they did do this then we have to wait and see
This could lead to WW3 and a nuclear war
anti bot
it’s not an effing war you a hole. It’s an invasion of a bigger country into a smaller country, resulting in the killing and forced escape of innocent people.
anti bot
Ah go on reply. chicken poo
Broadbag
@Dinkum
So just let the warmongers take Ukraine? And then what, emboldened they fancy Moldova and while they’re at it they may as well take Latvia and Estonia…those pesky Finns seem keen on Nato so let’s take them too? Go ahead Russia, just don’t drop any nukes on us, take whatever you want?
anti bot
Don’t expect an answer. These a holes just spout poo and run away. They look at qanon websites come on here, make ludicrous comments then run away. Urkanians are lucky that they don’t live there. They would be hiding behind their children. cowards
stephen moran
To paraphrase Gunnery Sgt. Hartman: a brilliant retort from the Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Janša shows that Russia indeed is the kind of country that would fupp a another in the botty and not even have the goddamn common courtesy to give it a reach-around.
He has certainly more balls than Ireland’s eunuch working class heroes – file under – but you’re all fupping middle class grifters to me
TenPin Terry
Funnily enough I was at a local garden centre here in Blighty today where I happened to have a look at the Webb Pro 18″ self-propelled lawnmower advertised in the Co-op Superstores sale on the front of the Examiner for €429.
It was £279.99.
Do they charge import tax disguised as VRT on mowers as well as cars these days ?
The fragrant Lady TenPin has just suggested a ride-on. At least I think that’s what she said.
Marvellous™
Could be a useful adjunct to the basic universal income for Irish artists…
TenPin Terry
Excellent news V and long overdue.
I’ve also often thought that cannabis would be an excellent treatment for anorexia.
Try avoiding the munchies if you can.
Marvellous™
Hughie Luas
She’s mixed you up with Paddy: Patrick Mower.
Mad
That’s funny. I had always had you down as a self pulling type
GiggidyGoo
£280 x 1.20 = €356.
how much do you reckon the transport cost is to Ireland?
How much do you reckon it costs to clear it through customs?
Then again, they’re £359 normally in the UK. Any shop can advertise them for €279.99 when they haven’t got them. That’s what makes you blighters so dim.
TenPin Terry
Don’t Ireland make lawnmowers ?
Webb is a good old-fashioned British company going since the 1800s when they started out selling seeds.
The boss is Ed Webb, the great, great grandson of the company founder.
My current East European gardener and handyman Tomasz has been dropping hints for a new mower – this despite me investing in a none-to-shabby leaf blower last year.
I think I’ll try to get one more summer out of my trusty Mountfield.
Secretly I have my eye on The Cub Cadet Infinicut™.
If it’s good enough for Wimbledon …
Marvellous™
TenPin Terry
That Whelehans wine advert on the front of the IT caught my eye as well.
Upon investigation the first wine I picked out was a 2015 Pauillac CHÂTEAU LYNCH BAGES. Retails at €325 a bottle.
Online here in Blighty it’s £117.
Brexit, eh ?
Hehx3™
GiggidyGoo
Charger – you were trying to make a point of a lawnmower being cheaper in the UK (made by a UK company), but when you were, erm, informed of the reasons why UK goods are more expensive in Europe (thus the fall in UK exports mind you), off you went on another different subject.
Strike!
Back of the net!
Touchdown!
Howzat!
Escape from Victory!
1966!
I doubt a damp smelly bedsit carpet needs mowing too.
Dinkum
Tin man as far as I know it’s not VRT it’s a tax on the charger that is used on it
Hughie Luas
His dentist was a turkey? RIP all the same.
That Sharron Davies looks well for 60. Didn’t know she was trans.
Ian - oG
Britain’s turning into a right wing sh 1 thole and with a women beater as their PM and a pederast escorting their monarch about (and he is just one of many) it’s no surprise.
Scotland will be gone out of it soon enough as will the North of Ireland and the Welsh might actually wake up and leave as well.
Like all empires, it is ending in ignominy. Even their ministers are openly fiddling the tax system. That Sunak is, like the rest of the Tories, scum.
TenPin Terry
Oh dear, why not just wipe the spittle from your screen and consider the facts.
Dishy Rishi is a marvellous example of the multi-cultural success story of the Conservative party and Great Britain.
Son of immigrants and a Hindu he has risen from holiday waiter in a Southampton curry house to one of the most powerful jobs in government.
Joining him as Foreign Secretary and Home Secretary are a Jew and another Hindu.
The Dail has more TDs wearing caps than are from ethnic minorities.
Deep down I’d say you’re a sad little racist who once had his oafish advances rejected by a fine English rose.
Perhaps it was the white socks and metal buckle on your shoes that put her off.
Ian - oG
When I want the opinion of a natural sycophant I’ll dictate it you.
Until then, stick with the amusing stories.
TenPin Terry
Nope, on reflection it was probably the ginger hair and gormless expression which put her off.
Either that or the ill-fitting GAA top straining to hold in the Guinness belly accompanied by the unmistakable odour of farmyard slurry.
One is never far from that in Ireland.
The chancellor of the exchequer who’s millionaire wife is a non-dom tax cheat with filthy Russian ties. A veritable shining example for tories but a rancid slur to most right-thinking people.
stephen moran
Proving the old adage that Chechen scumbags can’t jump- though he’s done quite a bit of rimming of Putra – the Grozny Globetrotters (not)
MK Bhadrakumar, former Indian ambassador and foreign office diplomat for 30 years gives his informed opinion on the current state of affairs in Ukraine.
He deems the media conclusions that Russia is culpable for the Bucha killings even though “No expert opinion was sought, no forensic work was done, no opportunity given to the accused to be heard.” an example of “fake news”.
Bhadrakumar: “To be sure, a major battle is approaching, the most decisive in the entire Russian special operation so far. The catch is, the [Donbass] cauldron also has plentiful settlements of ethnic Russian population (including Russian passport holders) and the offensive will be a long grind patiently executed to avoid civilian casualty or destruction of civilian infrastructure.
That is to say, Phase 2 may last anywhere up to a month or so to be completed. Make no mistake, the Russians have to win here (which they will) as they will also be breaking the back of the Ukrainian armed forces. Despite all the bluster by Zelensky, Kiev will realise the enormity of the defeat and his western mentors will see the writing on the wall too…
..The Ukrainian forces are well-armed and have fortified themselves heavily but are unable to escape from the entrapment [in Donbass]…The Russian forces have put out of action all nearby airports and destroyed the nearby Ukrainian oil reserves systematically through Phase 1 of the operation. As I wrote in a previous blog, three days ago, Russian forces dealt a devastating blow..
…To be sure, a whole month lies ahead where the western strategy will be to incessantly manufacture fake news, intensify the information war. Even some false flag operation may be staged under the supervision of western intelligence operatives.
In a worst case scenario, Kiev may even play its last card — chemical weapons.”
Nigeld
And that’s how you shamelessly suck up to Putin.
bisted
…shameless indeed…pity the poor innocent Ukrainians being used as pawns in a shameless power grab against former comrades…
Nigel
Those poor innocent Ukrainians poked the bear just by being in Putin’s way.
Dinkum
You must have Alzheimer’s for you forget the rhetoric coming from zelensky before putins invasion add in the wests as well
Also the fact NATO could not state that Ukraine would never be allowed to join NATO
and let’s face it ukraine was trying to join the EU and as such would not need to be members of NATO and when it succeeded depending on complying to EUs requests to the rules and laws would have protection from the EU unless of course the EU admits countries as members who do not commit to the EUs principles
you do not poke a lunatic like Putin
This invasion could of been avoided
Nigel
Wow a soveriegn state wanted to exercise its soveriegn rights of self-determination, what a war crime. They didn’t poke Putin, they got in the way of his ambitions.
bisted
…this is an existential crisis for Russia…they saw the democratically elected government removed by a facist mob and the further encroachment of US…their objectives have not changed in Ukraine…denazifacation and demilitarisation…if the US interfere with this objective there will be a nuclear war…Russia have nothing to loose…
Nigel
How is it an existential crisis for Russia? That makes no sense at all. They aren’t under military threat from anyone, not with nukes to keep their kleptocracy safe. Their interference in Ukraine has been far worse, more destructive and threatening than anything the US has done. Their objective in Ukraine is deukrainisation – they’ve said so explicitly in their state media. Genocide and ethnic cleansing for Ukraine, all to keep Russia safe? What a joke. It’s imperialism, pure and simple.
jonjoe
How do you feel about democratically-elected presidents being toppled?
Like happened in Egypt, like happened in Ukraine in the same period, like happened in many places where the US didn’t approve of the result, from Iran in the 1950s to the present day – including the recent coup attempts in Venezuela and Bolivia.
The US have been at it for a long time. Or maybe you feel the 2014 coup in Ukraine was somehow democratic?
bisted
…being democratically elected is one thing but you can have the wrong type of democracy…for Nigel, it must be Democrat approved democracy…Trump being elected was the wrong type of democracy…he whinged for four years solid during the Trump presidency…Biden makes no secret of who his next target for regime change is yet Nigel denies Russia should feel under existential threat…
Ian - oG
This is the person he is talking about above:
MK Bhadrakumar: ”It has transformed into an incredibly diverse movement that made inroads into all communities and ethnic groups, has diversified external relations in the West and East alike, and is hankering for legitimacy.”
Who is this wonderful, outreaching and diverse ‘movement’ he refers to you ask?
The Taliban.
SailorGerry
Thanks f_lawless, the link you posted seems like an accurate assessment to me and is also how I expect events to unfold.
There will be lots more false flagging and screams of genocide, but the outcome will not alter and Russia will finish what it started. NATO will fight against Russia to the last Ukrainian.
Big push for the May Day parade on the 9th….
stephen moran
There will be quite a few empty spaces amongst the ranks on the parade ground and amongst the reviewing stand this year this year as it seems the Russian army are great lads for old shiny boots and cocky marching up and down routine beloved of pseudo soldiers and not much use at actually fighting an army that has the temerity and poor manners to shoot back when defending their homeland from invasion and naked neo-Czarist aggression
Mad
Is your wife Ukrainian?
Cú Chulainn
Russia, as you pointed out yesterday Stephen, has utterly destroyed its WW2 and Cold War legacy. In time, were it not for this invasion, Russia would most likely have been seen as the good guy and the only break on US foreign policy which has left devastation across our planet. As for the fake news allegations: it’s only fake if it isn’t true and it is true that Russia is engaged in the indiscriminate murder of civilians. It really doesn’t matter if the lens if pulled or focused in a particular way for maximum impact. A sharpened image is still the image. Unless a deal has been struck to cede the east region, always a possibility, expect a Pyrrhic victory for the Russians, followed by regime change and the eventual end of the European theatre of WW2.
Nigel
The standard of proof for proving Russian War crimes: incredibly high.
The standard for proving highly elaborate ‘false flags’: non existent.
hmmm
Potato lies.
SailorGerry
An oldie but goldie; and they have gotten slicker and more confident with their lies since then.
Two wars going on, one is a propaganda war which the Russians are not winning, and a kinetic one on the ground that they are.
I’m not an expert on military matters, but is an army withdrawing from territory they had just captured having lost 10% of their combat strength typically regarded as ‘winning’?
SOQ
Absolutely two wars going on but how do you measure who is winning the propaganda one? We are only seeing one side, as the other is banned but, given that Putin’s ratings are at a near all time high- who is winning on the other side of the fence?
Interesting that there is never any talk about Zelenskyy’s ratings. We know they were very low before this all started but not a word since. In fact, the one group who’s opinions are never mentioned at all in this war are the people who are trying to live there. Then again he did ban all opposition parties- so much for democracy eh?
Nigel
Why are we suddenly seeing people seperately use the ‘two wars going on’ phrase and acting like it’s some amazing insight?
Well known rule – dictators with absolute control over state media are allowed to invade the countries of any democratically-elected leader with lower ratings than them.
Ian - oG
Because this is all some sort of a game to a lot of them.
Being right is all that matters.
TenPin Terry
As I warned in this esteemed organ several weeks ago the problem of housing up to 200,000 Ukrainian refugees is a high speed fright train heading straight towards this government.
The Indo reports up to 10,000 could be without accommodation by the end of this month according to a secret briefing to Cabinet.
The generosity of people opening up their homes has not been matched by any official support.
Tents are being erected at army barracks with B&Bs and hotels already choked with capacity.
And that’s on top of the 10,000 pre-Ukraine refugees already living in emergency accommodation.
Meanwhile between now and the end of the day another 580 Ukrainians will arrive.
As they will tomorrow and every other day for the foreseeable future.
It’s going to get very, very messy.
GiggidyGoo
Think of it this way – If we take you in, we’ll take anyone.
SOQ
Problem is, Ukrainians can travel anywhere in the EU now which means there is no limit to the amount who can come here. All of these figures- 10k, 20k 30k- are plucked out of thin air because there is nothing stopping 1 m + arriving.
Interesting that while British intelligence are involved in the war and therefore contributing to the refugee problem, Britain itself has much tighter immigration controls in place and will be taking much less than Ireland.
TenPin Terry
Perhaps your chum Putin will offer to take them in …
paul
he’s already taken a fair few into camps by some reports. Whiff of Stalin and Hitler off the lad.
TenPin Terry
Aye.
Probably helps not to be openly gay in those circumstances either…
Ben Madigan
Maybe our neighbours across the water who have a much bigger house could open their door a bit wider.
TenPin Terry
It’s happening.
It’s just that the UK’s first priority is giving Ukraine enough military support that its citizens will one day have a country to go back to.
jonjoe
Leo said the other day to expect 200,000 Ukranian immigrants over the next 4 years.
He also said lots of them would be staying, i.e. not going home.
He didn’t say anything about housing them, schooling their children, providing health services for them or the like, just “they’re all welcome and fùc the begrudgers”. I paraphrase, of course.
NobleLocks
Great to see Boris come out and finally say that so called “trans women” i.e. Men, need to be kept out of women’s sports. Now all we need is for the rest of the UK to implement the EHRC recommendations and using the sword of fairness and common sense; slay the evil worm that is inclusivity and diversity. And I have a good feeling that it will :)
We should only be a few years behind here then too. And thus the pendulum swung.
Ian - oG
I love when people like you speak on this issue:
”using the sword of fairness and common sense; slay the evil worm that is inclusivity and diversity. ”
You sound like a complete headcase.
Keep it up please, I note you only really comment on your hobby horse issue, I advise you post about it as much as you can.
NobleLocks
Aww good old “attack the person not the point” posting… Posting an ad hominem is soooo 2003 lad, find yourself an argument, if you can lol.
I’d say the long winter nights in your house just fly by…
TenPin Terry
Ignore him.
He’s a racist bigot.
SOQ
This from the clown who posts anti Irish sectarianism on a daily basis.
Ian - oG
Stick with defending Jimmy SaviLLe boy.
The Millie Obnoxious™
Very good. Tell another one.
SOQ
Portland State Students Walkout When Biologist States Men And Women Are Different.
A trans activist actually sabotaged and damaged the sound system on the way out. Biology is now fascism it appears.
Nigel
Hang on, don’t you support a movement that blockaded an entire city for two weeks, running engines, spewing fumes and blasting horns for a lot of that time? I mean, you also support the invasion of a soveriegn state, the destruction of its cities and the massacring of its people, come to that. But walking out on somone and sabotaging a sound system is fascism? Dearie me.
SOQ
What is your nationality Nigel?
The Millie Obnoxious™
Not your business.
TenPin Terry
He asks every day.
Next he’ll be nosey about Nigel’s sexual orientation as well.
The poor deluded conspiracy theorist can’t help himself.
The Millie Obnoxious™
I’d also consider it harassment.
SOQ
If you a harassment list then I have a very long one to submit.
Interesting how you always pop up when this subject is raised eh?
Bodger
SOQ is regularly picked on.
Nigel
I apreciate it, but everyone has my permission to ignore SOQ asking about my nationality.
The Millie Obnoxious™
@SOQ
Yes, because you’ve done the same thing to me and others too. If you want to complain about how you’re treated, look to your own behaviour too.
@Bodger
I agree. It’s still none of his business, and still harassment.
paul
@Bodger if someone walks into a pub shouting nonsense, everyone in the pub has the right to tell that person to quiet down.
If that person then starts harassing others, that’s another issue.
TenPin Terry
There is none more picked on here than Yours Truly.
But my back is broad and well-used to the brickbats and bouquets that inevitably come the way of one so erudite and witty as myself.
Queenie is ok. A bit deranged over Ukraine and vaccines but other than that no more a chump that some of the langers on here.
The main thing is to remember that this is only the internent and no-one here would say boo to a goose if you met in real life.
Chill everyone and smell the coffee which at the moment for me is a Brazilian single origin cafetiére grind called Fazenda Pinhal with its hints of hazelnut praline and chocolate which I get from Taylor’s of Harrogate.
By jove is that the time ? Must get up soon.
Bodger
You’ve some nerve
Seriously. Am I supposed to keep a straight face at your poor SOQ?
SOQ is a liar. SOQ is a doxer. SOQ is a misogynist and a bully. And a racist. And Broadsheet host it all for him. Gladly by the sounds of it
SOQ is a gay porn linking empty bag in the wind who will follow what ever direction John Ryan’s hair points him to.
SOQ cannot take ownership of his content here under his real life identity, and you know it.
So please, spare me your indignation at one of your patriot digital soldiers getting pulled up.
And btw
What your other groomy loony -KCavan, posted about Sinead O’Connor was appalling. Totally inhuman, and absolutely unnecessary, in any context.
Ye should all be ashamed.
johnny
…he’s just so F shouty and LOUD but your wasting your time,he thinks denial is a river in Egypt.
SOQ
What lovely manners eh?
Hughie Luas
V, agreed, but you’re wasting your time. It’s all part of the plan.
Two local lads desperate for notice and web-clicks keep it up until the end.
+
Olga is a Russian name (hint hint, not that she’s treated equally by John/Bodger)
I’ve been commenting on open forums since the first GAA page opened, pre millennium, and moderated all sorts when www meant wild wild west.
And I can tell you what SOQ posted into the Broadsheet on the Telly chat pit of the Luke O’Neill episode, would have him banned for life from any other forum I’ve previous with. And that’s saying something.
You can’t tell a lad here to p 8 ss off
But you can tell a guest to pick a tree to be hanged from
That’s seriously effed up stuff
TBH, admitting it now. Like that.
Is heartbreaking. For me anyway.
I used to be very proud of the columns I had up here.
Bragged about them even.
And What for.
To give the likes of SOQ and all the other GO’D ALT white dopes something to comment on?
TenPin Terry
V – if you’re going to do another one of your famous flounces will you at least let me have the recipe for your legendary creamed horn afore ye go ?
Hughie Luas
A note to BS advertisers will stop that.
+ although Bodger can hide behind the WordPress generous T&C’s, YouTube (Google) are not so fond of SOQ puppets and hate. Report it to the platform.
Don’t be acting all shy and butter_wouldn’t_melt Charage
You know full well I’ll come and go as I please across any forum I haven’t been barred from, and you were a dab hand yourself at that back in the day.
Creamed Horn huh
Surely that’s one for SOQ
Time to put the dog down
This is the level, still on the byline right now:
“Posted in Misc and tagged M7, name those jammers at 10:39 am on April 6, 2022 by Bodger.
25 Replies”
TenPin Terry
Tonight I shall be raising a glass of foaming ale to one of Blighty’s greatest poets, William Wordsworth, who was born on this day in 1770.
In a place called Cockermouth.
Which is nice.
Such a way with words.
‘ My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began;
So is it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!
The Child is father of the Man;
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety ‘
Marvellous™
Mad
V get a hold of yourself!
You’re whinging about someone commenting on a third party platform. You’ve often posted here clearly tired and emotional yourself.
Leave SOQ alone and let him be.
Point to where I posted porn links
Doxxed
Threatened to dox
Defamed
Demonstrated any form of racism
Or alt white ism
Or deliberately and knowingly posted lies about other commenters
And Columnists for that matter
You’ve a good 10 years of activity here to find even one example of the above
Just because the GO’D campaign tried to make all that true
Doesn’t mean they managed it
Not one
So let’s have ye turn out now to help Mad prove himself this time
Mad
Don’t you believe in allowing sinners repent V?
If Bodger banned everyone who was awful at one stage or another there would be no one left
Mad
V get a grip
We’ve all done things we regret
Own your own drunken rants on here and we can forgive you
Have I ever denied a single word here lads?
Drunk
Ranted
Or anything else
Tell you what, pull one up there for the craic
And let’s see if I can’t match it with a beauty, might be a screen shot mind, nonetheless
Let’s see if anything of mine comes within pointing_from_ a_placed_ball distance of what the SoQuo Quackers have put out
I wouldn’t if I were you,
I actually feel sorry for the man
TenPin Terry
” You sound like a complete headcase.”
This from someone who only minutes earlier wrote ” Britain’s turning into a right wing sh 1 thole and with a women beater as their PM and a pederast escorting their monarch about (and he is just one of many) it’s no surprise.”
You’re not a headcase old cock, just an imbecile.
NobleLocks
He’s good isn’t he, I’d say he literally goes off like a kettle whistle when he’s called any names…. especially the name that rhymes with boomer and starts with ok.
TenPin Terry
Based on his ouvre I’d say that zinger just flew right over his carrot head …
Hehx3™
Ian - oG
Triggered there tezza?
How many marathons do you need to run before its OK to abuse kids, remind me please?
Cú Chulainn
I think a holiday is called for…
TenPin Terry
Funnily enough I have another long-haul sunshine sojourn planned for next month – basically just using up airline vouchers from the start of the pandemic.
I’m thinking of changing my username to Phileas Fogg just for the lols.
Anything planned yourself for this year squire ?
I hear Trabolgan has had a paint job.
Cú Chulainn
I suppose you’d know about trabolgan Charger… having just had your fantasy holiday there..!!
TenPin Terry
Unlikely old sport.
A quick internet search reveals it doesn’t open for the 2022 season until tomorrow.
But God loves a trier.
Bless.
Cú Chulainn
We all know you weren’t there in an official paying capacity Charger..
Mark his official account as “Russia state-affiliated media”.
johnny
oh.
“Digicel Group Holdings Limited (“DGHL”) today announces that Digicel Panama S.A. (“Digicel Panama”) intends to apply for voluntary liquidation and withdraw from the telecommunications market in Panama.”
certainly not the governments of ‘banana” republics Panama and Papa New Guinea.
GiggidyGoo
Well, the coffers of Actavo and the other, erm, broadband ‘experts’ have €3000,000,000 approx. coming to them, so failures of the likes of digicel make no difference when our money can keep him afloat.
Mad
Indeed how does that song go? I’ve got your love to keep me warm
SOQ
Looks like some common sense is returning to Germany now too.
German parliament rejects over-60s vaccine mandate
The German Bundestag has rejected a bill from the SPD, Greens and FDP for a general Covid vaccine mandate for over-60s.
In a stinging defeat for Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s coalition, 378 MPs voted against the bill, while 296 voted in favour.
Mon Dieu !
Latest poll in notional second-round run off for French president:
Le Pen 50.5%
Macron 49.5%
Tight as a nun’s nasty !
The granny-grabber Napoleon is running scared … https://twitter.com/Macron2022/status/1511663007012638721
“Russia’s rights of membership in the UN Human Rights Council has just been suspended. War criminals have no place in UN bodies aimed at protecting human rights. Grateful to all member states which supported the relevant UNGA resolution and chose the right side of history.”
~ Dmytro Kuleba, Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs
“…The father’s objections were based on his genuinely held views. These views had a basis in some research that he had carried out online, in a situation where he had no medical or scientific expertise…”
As horrific evidence of massacres is uncovered in Ukraine, Russian propaganda gathers pace
https://theconversation.com/as-horrific-evidence-of-massacres-is-uncovered-in-ukraine-russian-propaganda-gathers-pace-180657?utm
À la télévision russe, la vérité n’existe plus
https://www.ouest-france.fr/monde/guerre-en-ukraine/guerre-en-ukraine-a-la-television-russe-la-verite-n-existe-plus-34eece14-b5a6-11ec-a299-c9106b4183f5
Really poor journalism in my opinion. Seems like it was cobbled together by different writers.
Opening sentence starts off with“The appalling crimes against humanity[link to report on Bucha massacre] allegedly committed by Russian soldiers against Ukrainians..” but by the middle of the article, it comes out with this line: “Russia even attempted to convene the UN Security Council to discuss atrocities [link to article regarding proposed UN discussion of Bucha] – which its forces were clearly responsible for – that it alleged were committed by Ukraine.”
The preceding paragraphs make no case as to why the Russians are now “clearly culpable” and can be paraphrased as “Well, they would deny culpability, wouldn’t they?”. The rest of the article is of a similar standard IMO.
Fake News calling others Fake News for pointing out the fake in the news is peak 2022.
Ex Pentagon senior advisor Colonel Douglas Macgregor has a very different take on what happened in Bucha. He makes the point that the white arm bands symbolise not being part of the war and he questions why the Russians would do such a thing when they were leaving.
“I’ve seen this before. I saw it in the run up to the Iraq war”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9NaiNY4N5s
One other thing- he says that the Ukrainian army are known to have been killing people who wear the white arm bands. If that is correct then it completely changes the narrative.
So it makes no sense for the Russians to kill Ukrainians so it can’t be happening but it does make sense for the Ukrainians to kill Ukrainians therefore big if true.
Russian soldiers ‘discussed killing civilians’ in Ukraine in radio intercepts
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/07/russian-soldiers-discussed-killing-civilians-in-radio-intercepts
“…According to Spiegel, which indirectly referenced people who had been present at the meeting at which the BND officers delivered the fresh evidence to a select group of MPs, the recordings “entirely invalidate Russia’s denials”. In one of the radio conversations, a Russian voice is heard telling someone how he and another soldier shot a person who had been on a bicycle. One of the many pictures of the atrocities to have gone around the world in recent days was of the corpse of a person next to a bicycle…”
It’s gathering pace all over the west
Let’s face it we should ask is the situation in Ukraine worth a global nuclear war?
The war drum is banging and not one independent war crime inspection as been carried out to see if indeed Russia is guilty.
War is a nasty business and remember NATO and it’s WMD in Iraq
Until the UN has conducted a full forensic investigation and it’s proven they did do this then we have to wait and see
This could lead to WW3 and a nuclear war
it’s not an effing war you a hole. It’s an invasion of a bigger country into a smaller country, resulting in the killing and forced escape of innocent people.
Ah go on reply. chicken poo
@Dinkum
So just let the warmongers take Ukraine? And then what, emboldened they fancy Moldova and while they’re at it they may as well take Latvia and Estonia…those pesky Finns seem keen on Nato so let’s take them too? Go ahead Russia, just don’t drop any nukes on us, take whatever you want?
Don’t expect an answer. These a holes just spout poo and run away. They look at qanon websites come on here, make ludicrous comments then run away. Urkanians are lucky that they don’t live there. They would be hiding behind their children. cowards
To paraphrase Gunnery Sgt. Hartman: a brilliant retort from the Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Janša shows that Russia indeed is the kind of country that would fupp a another in the botty and not even have the goddamn common courtesy to give it a reach-around.
https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1511776931649396741
He has certainly more balls than Ireland’s eunuch working class heroes – file under – but you’re all fupping middle class grifters to me
Funnily enough I was at a local garden centre here in Blighty today where I happened to have a look at the Webb Pro 18″ self-propelled lawnmower advertised in the Co-op Superstores sale on the front of the Examiner for €429.
It was £279.99.
Do they charge import tax disguised as VRT on mowers as well as cars these days ?
The fragrant Lady TenPin has just suggested a ride-on. At least I think that’s what she said.
Marvellous™
While you’re there
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/5-000-british-adults-to-take-part-in-cannabis-trial-x6m9cg03w
Could be a useful adjunct to the basic universal income for Irish artists…
Excellent news V and long overdue.
I’ve also often thought that cannabis would be an excellent treatment for anorexia.
Try avoiding the munchies if you can.
Marvellous™
She’s mixed you up with Paddy: Patrick Mower.
That’s funny. I had always had you down as a self pulling type
£280 x 1.20 = €356.
how much do you reckon the transport cost is to Ireland?
How much do you reckon it costs to clear it through customs?
Then again, they’re £359 normally in the UK. Any shop can advertise them for €279.99 when they haven’t got them. That’s what makes you blighters so dim.
Don’t Ireland make lawnmowers ?
Webb is a good old-fashioned British company going since the 1800s when they started out selling seeds.
The boss is Ed Webb, the great, great grandson of the company founder.
My current East European gardener and handyman Tomasz has been dropping hints for a new mower – this despite me investing in a none-to-shabby leaf blower last year.
I think I’ll try to get one more summer out of my trusty Mountfield.
Secretly I have my eye on The Cub Cadet Infinicut™.
If it’s good enough for Wimbledon …
Marvellous™
That Whelehans wine advert on the front of the IT caught my eye as well.
Upon investigation the first wine I picked out was a 2015 Pauillac CHÂTEAU LYNCH BAGES. Retails at €325 a bottle.
Online here in Blighty it’s £117.
Brexit, eh ?
Hehx3™
Charger – you were trying to make a point of a lawnmower being cheaper in the UK (made by a UK company), but when you were, erm, informed of the reasons why UK goods are more expensive in Europe (thus the fall in UK exports mind you), off you went on another different subject.
Strike!
Back of the net!
Touchdown!
Howzat!
Escape from Victory!
1966!
I doubt a damp smelly bedsit carpet needs mowing too.
Tin man as far as I know it’s not VRT it’s a tax on the charger that is used on it
His dentist was a turkey? RIP all the same.
That Sharron Davies looks well for 60. Didn’t know she was trans.
Britain’s turning into a right wing sh 1 thole and with a women beater as their PM and a pederast escorting their monarch about (and he is just one of many) it’s no surprise.
Scotland will be gone out of it soon enough as will the North of Ireland and the Welsh might actually wake up and leave as well.
Like all empires, it is ending in ignominy. Even their ministers are openly fiddling the tax system. That Sunak is, like the rest of the Tories, scum.
Oh dear, why not just wipe the spittle from your screen and consider the facts.
Dishy Rishi is a marvellous example of the multi-cultural success story of the Conservative party and Great Britain.
Son of immigrants and a Hindu he has risen from holiday waiter in a Southampton curry house to one of the most powerful jobs in government.
Joining him as Foreign Secretary and Home Secretary are a Jew and another Hindu.
The Dail has more TDs wearing caps than are from ethnic minorities.
Deep down I’d say you’re a sad little racist who once had his oafish advances rejected by a fine English rose.
Perhaps it was the white socks and metal buckle on your shoes that put her off.
When I want the opinion of a natural sycophant I’ll dictate it you.
Until then, stick with the amusing stories.
Nope, on reflection it was probably the ginger hair and gormless expression which put her off.
Either that or the ill-fitting GAA top straining to hold in the Guinness belly accompanied by the unmistakable odour of farmyard slurry.
One is never far from that in Ireland.
https://www.peoplesrepublicofcork.com/forums/index.php?threads/charger-salmons.209757/
isn’t it great to be famous? You’re the No. 1 hit in google’s search for Charger Salmons. Lovely fellow eh?
The chancellor of the exchequer who’s millionaire wife is a non-dom tax cheat with filthy Russian ties. A veritable shining example for tories but a rancid slur to most right-thinking people.
Proving the old adage that Chechen scumbags can’t jump- though he’s done quite a bit of rimming of Putra – the Grozny Globetrotters (not)
https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1511806220562321412
MK Bhadrakumar, former Indian ambassador and foreign office diplomat for 30 years gives his informed opinion on the current state of affairs in Ukraine.
https://www.indianpunchline.com/fake-news-in-kiev-heralds-cruel-april/
He deems the media conclusions that Russia is culpable for the Bucha killings even though “No expert opinion was sought, no forensic work was done, no opportunity given to the accused to be heard.” an example of “fake news”.
Bhadrakumar: “To be sure, a major battle is approaching, the most decisive in the entire Russian special operation so far. The catch is, the [Donbass] cauldron also has plentiful settlements of ethnic Russian population (including Russian passport holders) and the offensive will be a long grind patiently executed to avoid civilian casualty or destruction of civilian infrastructure.
That is to say, Phase 2 may last anywhere up to a month or so to be completed. Make no mistake, the Russians have to win here (which they will) as they will also be breaking the back of the Ukrainian armed forces. Despite all the bluster by Zelensky, Kiev will realise the enormity of the defeat and his western mentors will see the writing on the wall too…
..The Ukrainian forces are well-armed and have fortified themselves heavily but are unable to escape from the entrapment [in Donbass]…The Russian forces have put out of action all nearby airports and destroyed the nearby Ukrainian oil reserves systematically through Phase 1 of the operation. As I wrote in a previous blog, three days ago, Russian forces dealt a devastating blow..
…To be sure, a whole month lies ahead where the western strategy will be to incessantly manufacture fake news, intensify the information war. Even some false flag operation may be staged under the supervision of western intelligence operatives.
In a worst case scenario, Kiev may even play its last card — chemical weapons.”
And that’s how you shamelessly suck up to Putin.
…shameless indeed…pity the poor innocent Ukrainians being used as pawns in a shameless power grab against former comrades…
Those poor innocent Ukrainians poked the bear just by being in Putin’s way.
You must have Alzheimer’s for you forget the rhetoric coming from zelensky before putins invasion add in the wests as well
Also the fact NATO could not state that Ukraine would never be allowed to join NATO
and let’s face it ukraine was trying to join the EU and as such would not need to be members of NATO and when it succeeded depending on complying to EUs requests to the rules and laws would have protection from the EU unless of course the EU admits countries as members who do not commit to the EUs principles
you do not poke a lunatic like Putin
This invasion could of been avoided
Wow a soveriegn state wanted to exercise its soveriegn rights of self-determination, what a war crime. They didn’t poke Putin, they got in the way of his ambitions.
…this is an existential crisis for Russia…they saw the democratically elected government removed by a facist mob and the further encroachment of US…their objectives have not changed in Ukraine…denazifacation and demilitarisation…if the US interfere with this objective there will be a nuclear war…Russia have nothing to loose…
How is it an existential crisis for Russia? That makes no sense at all. They aren’t under military threat from anyone, not with nukes to keep their kleptocracy safe. Their interference in Ukraine has been far worse, more destructive and threatening than anything the US has done. Their objective in Ukraine is deukrainisation – they’ve said so explicitly in their state media. Genocide and ethnic cleansing for Ukraine, all to keep Russia safe? What a joke. It’s imperialism, pure and simple.
How do you feel about democratically-elected presidents being toppled?
Like happened in Egypt, like happened in Ukraine in the same period, like happened in many places where the US didn’t approve of the result, from Iran in the 1950s to the present day – including the recent coup attempts in Venezuela and Bolivia.
The US have been at it for a long time. Or maybe you feel the 2014 coup in Ukraine was somehow democratic?
…being democratically elected is one thing but you can have the wrong type of democracy…for Nigel, it must be Democrat approved democracy…Trump being elected was the wrong type of democracy…he whinged for four years solid during the Trump presidency…Biden makes no secret of who his next target for regime change is yet Nigel denies Russia should feel under existential threat…
This is the person he is talking about above:
MK Bhadrakumar: ”It has transformed into an incredibly diverse movement that made inroads into all communities and ethnic groups, has diversified external relations in the West and East alike, and is hankering for legitimacy.”
Who is this wonderful, outreaching and diverse ‘movement’ he refers to you ask?
The Taliban.
Thanks f_lawless, the link you posted seems like an accurate assessment to me and is also how I expect events to unfold.
There will be lots more false flagging and screams of genocide, but the outcome will not alter and Russia will finish what it started. NATO will fight against Russia to the last Ukrainian.
Big push for the May Day parade on the 9th….
There will be quite a few empty spaces amongst the ranks on the parade ground and amongst the reviewing stand this year this year as it seems the Russian army are great lads for old shiny boots and cocky marching up and down routine beloved of pseudo soldiers and not much use at actually fighting an army that has the temerity and poor manners to shoot back when defending their homeland from invasion and naked neo-Czarist aggression
Is your wife Ukrainian?
Russia, as you pointed out yesterday Stephen, has utterly destroyed its WW2 and Cold War legacy. In time, were it not for this invasion, Russia would most likely have been seen as the good guy and the only break on US foreign policy which has left devastation across our planet. As for the fake news allegations: it’s only fake if it isn’t true and it is true that Russia is engaged in the indiscriminate murder of civilians. It really doesn’t matter if the lens if pulled or focused in a particular way for maximum impact. A sharpened image is still the image. Unless a deal has been struck to cede the east region, always a possibility, expect a Pyrrhic victory for the Russians, followed by regime change and the eventual end of the European theatre of WW2.
The standard of proof for proving Russian War crimes: incredibly high.
The standard for proving highly elaborate ‘false flags’: non existent.
Potato lies.
An oldie but goldie; and they have gotten slicker and more confident with their lies since then.
Two wars going on, one is a propaganda war which the Russians are not winning, and a kinetic one on the ground that they are.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1510999377950789639
I’m not an expert on military matters, but is an army withdrawing from territory they had just captured having lost 10% of their combat strength typically regarded as ‘winning’?
Absolutely two wars going on but how do you measure who is winning the propaganda one? We are only seeing one side, as the other is banned but, given that Putin’s ratings are at a near all time high- who is winning on the other side of the fence?
Interesting that there is never any talk about Zelenskyy’s ratings. We know they were very low before this all started but not a word since. In fact, the one group who’s opinions are never mentioned at all in this war are the people who are trying to live there. Then again he did ban all opposition parties- so much for democracy eh?
Why are we suddenly seeing people seperately use the ‘two wars going on’ phrase and acting like it’s some amazing insight?
Well known rule – dictators with absolute control over state media are allowed to invade the countries of any democratically-elected leader with lower ratings than them.
Because this is all some sort of a game to a lot of them.
Being right is all that matters.
As I warned in this esteemed organ several weeks ago the problem of housing up to 200,000 Ukrainian refugees is a high speed fright train heading straight towards this government.
The Indo reports up to 10,000 could be without accommodation by the end of this month according to a secret briefing to Cabinet.
The generosity of people opening up their homes has not been matched by any official support.
Tents are being erected at army barracks with B&Bs and hotels already choked with capacity.
And that’s on top of the 10,000 pre-Ukraine refugees already living in emergency accommodation.
Meanwhile between now and the end of the day another 580 Ukrainians will arrive.
As they will tomorrow and every other day for the foreseeable future.
It’s going to get very, very messy.
Think of it this way – If we take you in, we’ll take anyone.
Problem is, Ukrainians can travel anywhere in the EU now which means there is no limit to the amount who can come here. All of these figures- 10k, 20k 30k- are plucked out of thin air because there is nothing stopping 1 m + arriving.
Interesting that while British intelligence are involved in the war and therefore contributing to the refugee problem, Britain itself has much tighter immigration controls in place and will be taking much less than Ireland.
Perhaps your chum Putin will offer to take them in …
he’s already taken a fair few into camps by some reports. Whiff of Stalin and Hitler off the lad.
Aye.
Probably helps not to be openly gay in those circumstances either…
Maybe our neighbours across the water who have a much bigger house could open their door a bit wider.
It’s happening.
It’s just that the UK’s first priority is giving Ukraine enough military support that its citizens will one day have a country to go back to.
Leo said the other day to expect 200,000 Ukranian immigrants over the next 4 years.
He also said lots of them would be staying, i.e. not going home.
He didn’t say anything about housing them, schooling their children, providing health services for them or the like, just “they’re all welcome and fùc the begrudgers”. I paraphrase, of course.
Great to see Boris come out and finally say that so called “trans women” i.e. Men, need to be kept out of women’s sports. Now all we need is for the rest of the UK to implement the EHRC recommendations and using the sword of fairness and common sense; slay the evil worm that is inclusivity and diversity. And I have a good feeling that it will :)
We should only be a few years behind here then too. And thus the pendulum swung.
I love when people like you speak on this issue:
”using the sword of fairness and common sense; slay the evil worm that is inclusivity and diversity. ”
You sound like a complete headcase.
Keep it up please, I note you only really comment on your hobby horse issue, I advise you post about it as much as you can.
Aww good old “attack the person not the point” posting… Posting an ad hominem is soooo 2003 lad, find yourself an argument, if you can lol.
I’d say the long winter nights in your house just fly by…
Ignore him.
He’s a racist bigot.
This from the clown who posts anti Irish sectarianism on a daily basis.
Stick with defending Jimmy SaviLLe boy.
Very good. Tell another one.
Portland State Students Walkout When Biologist States Men And Women Are Different.
https://streamable.com/ryrnn
A trans activist actually sabotaged and damaged the sound system on the way out. Biology is now fascism it appears.
Hang on, don’t you support a movement that blockaded an entire city for two weeks, running engines, spewing fumes and blasting horns for a lot of that time? I mean, you also support the invasion of a soveriegn state, the destruction of its cities and the massacring of its people, come to that. But walking out on somone and sabotaging a sound system is fascism? Dearie me.
What is your nationality Nigel?
Not your business.
He asks every day.
Next he’ll be nosey about Nigel’s sexual orientation as well.
The poor deluded conspiracy theorist can’t help himself.
I’d also consider it harassment.
If you a harassment list then I have a very long one to submit.
Interesting how you always pop up when this subject is raised eh?
SOQ is regularly picked on.
I apreciate it, but everyone has my permission to ignore SOQ asking about my nationality.
@SOQ
Yes, because you’ve done the same thing to me and others too. If you want to complain about how you’re treated, look to your own behaviour too.
@Bodger
I agree. It’s still none of his business, and still harassment.
@Bodger if someone walks into a pub shouting nonsense, everyone in the pub has the right to tell that person to quiet down.
If that person then starts harassing others, that’s another issue.
There is none more picked on here than Yours Truly.
But my back is broad and well-used to the brickbats and bouquets that inevitably come the way of one so erudite and witty as myself.
Queenie is ok. A bit deranged over Ukraine and vaccines but other than that no more a chump that some of the langers on here.
The main thing is to remember that this is only the internent and no-one here would say boo to a goose if you met in real life.
Chill everyone and smell the coffee which at the moment for me is a Brazilian single origin cafetiére grind called Fazenda Pinhal with its hints of hazelnut praline and chocolate which I get from Taylor’s of Harrogate.
By jove is that the time ? Must get up soon.
Bodger
You’ve some nerve
Seriously. Am I supposed to keep a straight face at your poor SOQ?
SOQ is a liar. SOQ is a doxer. SOQ is a misogynist and a bully. And a racist. And Broadsheet host it all for him. Gladly by the sounds of it
SOQ is a gay porn linking empty bag in the wind who will follow what ever direction John Ryan’s hair points him to.
SOQ cannot take ownership of his content here under his real life identity, and you know it.
So please, spare me your indignation at one of your patriot digital soldiers getting pulled up.
And btw
What your other groomy loony -KCavan, posted about Sinead O’Connor was appalling. Totally inhuman, and absolutely unnecessary, in any context.
Ye should all be ashamed.
…he’s just so F shouty and LOUD but your wasting your time,he thinks denial is a river in Egypt.
What lovely manners eh?
V, agreed, but you’re wasting your time. It’s all part of the plan.
Two local lads desperate for notice and web-clicks keep it up until the end.
+
Olga is a Russian name (hint hint, not that she’s treated equally by John/Bodger)
A lot more to this than meets the eye
I’ve been commenting on open forums since the first GAA page opened, pre millennium, and moderated all sorts when www meant wild wild west.
And I can tell you what SOQ posted into the Broadsheet on the Telly chat pit of the Luke O’Neill episode, would have him banned for life from any other forum I’ve previous with. And that’s saying something.
You can’t tell a lad here to p 8 ss off
But you can tell a guest to pick a tree to be hanged from
That’s seriously effed up stuff
TBH, admitting it now. Like that.
Is heartbreaking. For me anyway.
I used to be very proud of the columns I had up here.
Bragged about them even.
And What for.
To give the likes of SOQ and all the other GO’D ALT white dopes something to comment on?
V – if you’re going to do another one of your famous flounces will you at least let me have the recipe for your legendary creamed horn afore ye go ?
A note to BS advertisers will stop that.
+ although Bodger can hide behind the WordPress generous T&C’s, YouTube (Google) are not so fond of SOQ puppets and hate. Report it to the platform.
Don’t be acting all shy and butter_wouldn’t_melt Charage
You know full well I’ll come and go as I please across any forum I haven’t been barred from, and you were a dab hand yourself at that back in the day.
Creamed Horn huh
Surely that’s one for SOQ
This is the level, still on the byline right now:
“Posted in Misc and tagged M7, name those jammers at 10:39 am on April 6, 2022 by Bodger.
25 Replies”
Tonight I shall be raising a glass of foaming ale to one of Blighty’s greatest poets, William Wordsworth, who was born on this day in 1770.
In a place called Cockermouth.
Which is nice.
Such a way with words.
‘ My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began;
So is it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!
The Child is father of the Man;
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety ‘
Marvellous™
V get a hold of yourself!
You’re whinging about someone commenting on a third party platform. You’ve often posted here clearly tired and emotional yourself.
Leave SOQ alone and let him be.
Ok Mads
Point to where I posted porn links
Doxxed
Threatened to dox
Defamed
Demonstrated any form of racism
Or alt white ism
Or deliberately and knowingly posted lies about other commenters
And Columnists for that matter
You’ve a good 10 years of activity here to find even one example of the above
Just because the GO’D campaign tried to make all that true
Doesn’t mean they managed it
Not one
So let’s have ye turn out now to help Mad prove himself this time
Don’t you believe in allowing sinners repent V?
If Bodger banned everyone who was awful at one stage or another there would be no one left
V get a grip
We’ve all done things we regret
Own your own drunken rants on here and we can forgive you
And?
Have I ever denied a single word here lads?
Drunk
Ranted
Or anything else
Tell you what, pull one up there for the craic
And let’s see if I can’t match it with a beauty, might be a screen shot mind, nonetheless
Let’s see if anything of mine comes within pointing_from_ a_placed_ball distance of what the SoQuo Quackers have put out
I wouldn’t if I were you,
I actually feel sorry for the man
” You sound like a complete headcase.”
This from someone who only minutes earlier wrote ” Britain’s turning into a right wing sh 1 thole and with a women beater as their PM and a pederast escorting their monarch about (and he is just one of many) it’s no surprise.”
You’re not a headcase old cock, just an imbecile.
He’s good isn’t he, I’d say he literally goes off like a kettle whistle when he’s called any names…. especially the name that rhymes with boomer and starts with ok.
Based on his ouvre I’d say that zinger just flew right over his carrot head …
Hehx3™
Triggered there tezza?
How many marathons do you need to run before its OK to abuse kids, remind me please?
I think a holiday is called for…
Funnily enough I have another long-haul sunshine sojourn planned for next month – basically just using up airline vouchers from the start of the pandemic.
I’m thinking of changing my username to Phileas Fogg just for the lols.
Anything planned yourself for this year squire ?
I hear Trabolgan has had a paint job.
I suppose you’d know about trabolgan Charger… having just had your fantasy holiday there..!!
Unlikely old sport.
A quick internet search reveals it doesn’t open for the 2022 season until tomorrow.
But God loves a trier.
Bless.
We all know you weren’t there in an official paying capacity Charger..
Here’s the SOQ solution (and to a few others).
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10694261/George-Galloway-vents-fury-Twitter-account-flagged-Russian-state-affiliated-media.html
Mark his official account as “Russia state-affiliated media”.
oh.
“Digicel Group Holdings Limited (“DGHL”) today announces that Digicel Panama S.A. (“Digicel Panama”) intends to apply for voluntary liquidation and withdraw from the telecommunications market in Panama.”
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/update-on-digicel-panama-301519368.html
Who’s afraid of Dennis now then ?
certainly not the governments of ‘banana” republics Panama and Papa New Guinea.
Well, the coffers of Actavo and the other, erm, broadband ‘experts’ have €3000,000,000 approx. coming to them, so failures of the likes of digicel make no difference when our money can keep him afloat.
Indeed how does that song go? I’ve got your love to keep me warm
Looks like some common sense is returning to Germany now too.
German parliament rejects over-60s vaccine mandate
The German Bundestag has rejected a bill from the SPD, Greens and FDP for a general Covid vaccine mandate for over-60s.
In a stinging defeat for Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s coalition, 378 MPs voted against the bill, while 296 voted in favour.
https://www.thelocal.de/20220407/germany-parliament-rejects-over-60s-general-vaccine-mandate/
Mon Dieu !
Latest poll in notional second-round run off for French president:
Le Pen 50.5%
Macron 49.5%
Tight as a nun’s nasty !
The granny-grabber Napoleon is running scared …
https://twitter.com/Macron2022/status/1511663007012638721
Reading the wrong newspapers again.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/04/07/french-election-2022-poll-tracker-macrons-lead-marine-le-pen/
Macron leads.
“I would have commanded the rabble but, bone spurs”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/07/trump-regrets-not-marching-capitol-january-6
So Trump is the leader of Antifa? Who knew?
Jury convicts four men in relation to rape and sexual assault of teenage girl in a car six years ago:
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/jury-convicts-four-men-in-relation-to-rape-and-sexual-assault-of-teenage-girl-in-a-car-six-years-ago-41530747.html
“Russia’s rights of membership in the UN Human Rights Council has just been suspended. War criminals have no place in UN bodies aimed at protecting human rights. Grateful to all member states which supported the relevant UNGA resolution and chose the right side of history.”
~ Dmytro Kuleba, Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs
https://twitter.com/DmytroKuleba/status/1512095879037169665
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FPwO9dUWUAQmn0a?format=jpg&name=large
Father fails in bid to prevent estranged wife from vaccinating their five children
https://www.irishlegal.com/articles/ni-high-court-father-fails-in-bid-to-prevent-estranged-wife-from-vaccinating-their-five-children
“…The father’s objections were based on his genuinely held views. These views had a basis in some research that he had carried out online, in a situation where he had no medical or scientific expertise…”
Safe Access Bill passes all stages in the Seanad:
https://twitter.com/paul_gavan/status/1512085618976649223
Putin’s spokesman admits ‘we have had significant losses’ and it’s a ‘tragedy’
https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-war-news-russia-china-putin-peace-talks-live-updates-12541713
Russia expels two Irish diplomats
https://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/russia-expels-two-irish-diplomats-in-unjustified-move-41531335.html
Ketanji Brown Jackson makes history as first Black woman confirmed to US supreme court:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/07/ketanji-brown-jackson-confirmation-us-supreme-court
Good stuff.
What’s good about it? Is she a good candidate?
“Control your soul’s desire for freedom. Do not open the window or sing.”
https://twitter.com/aliceysu/status/1511558828802068481
Aughinish owner calls for war crimes investigation in Bucha
https://www.independent.ie/business/aughinish-owner-calls-for-war-crimes-investigation-in-bucha-41532095.html