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supermik

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  1. Must be a quiet time in media land. Imagine dedicating a 90 minute programme and full page spreads on some twat that has not been relevant for years. If laws have been broken then put him in front of a judge, if not then who really cares?

    if things as really as bad as the press are saying then why did they not go to the police straight away with their “evidence”? They could be as bad as the others that they are trying to say did nothing.

  2. I miss the good old days when the local markets were rammed full of people selling pirated software. Once paid £20 for a disc that contained over £3,500 worth of stuff like Auto Cad and full versions of Photoshop. 
    Just a pity that I never had a single clue about how to use them.

  3. 3 hours ago, pozbaird said:

    I genuinely thought Mike Yardwood had died about ten to fifteen years ago. As someone who grew up in that 1970s era, I also never, ever, found him remotely funny. Even in that world of big velvet bowties and dodgy Bernard Manning type comedians, I always thought Yardwood was, well, just unfunny. Frank Spencer ‘oooh Betty’. Nah, pish.

    RIP though. Certainly was a big star in the days of limited TV channels, no social media, no P&B. 😛

    I think Mike Yardwood probably did die years ago. Mike Yarwood on the other hand…

  4. 3 hours ago, RuMoore said:

    I went to Egypt and Israel for a couple of days from Cyprus when I was a kid on some promoted tour thing. 

    I was too little to fully appreciate what I was seeing but I like the fact I did it so I can say I've been to Africa and Asia even though I've spent less than 24 hours in each place. 

    Also my kids have been to more continents than me. 

     

    2 hours ago, RuMoore said:

    As a boring ass pedant I'd say being somewhere for a second counts as being there. I'd never say I've experienced the culture or anything mad, I'd always clarify I've only been there momentarily but it's just a good wee fact. 

    We just went outside the pyramids, some guy asked to take our picture and then tried to charge us after, also checked out the museum and saw the Tutankhamen mask, Israel was mad coz they had so many c***s rocking about with guns, saw the wailing wall and the place where yon Jesus was birthed and the crucifixion place. My main memory was it was far too hot like 40 degrees. 

    Learn something new every day! 

    I went to Auschwitz when it was an Israeli school holiday. The way that the kids treated the place made you think that hitler maybe had the right idea. Absolute horrible, ignorant wee feckers.

  5. 1 minute ago, RuMoore said:

    I went to Egypt and Israel for a couple of days from Cyprus when I was a kid on some promoted tour thing. 

    I was too little to fully appreciate what I was seeing but I like the fact I did it so I can say I've been to Africa and Asia even though I've spent less than 24 hours in each place. 

    It was just a day trip they went on. He was 17 and she was 12 at the time. They said that inside the pyramids was not very nice due to the smell. They were also promised a view of the sunset from a boat on the Nile, daughter said it was somewhere between skyscrapers.

  6. 20 minutes ago, scottsdad said:

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    Lucky that I never made a complaint about the time I sent my kids to Egypt on a day trip to the pyramids whilst I had a bevvy in Cyprus or the time that I paid a grand for a private plane and the pilot wanted a tip just to wheel one of my suitcases across the runway!!

     

  7. On 31/08/2023 at 15:39, scottsdad said:

    They're called tomahawk steaks because, having been oven-cooked, they are so tough you need an axe to cut them. 

     

    On 30/08/2023 at 21:57, Venti said:

    You've never cooked a tomahawk steak then.

     

  8. 54 minutes ago, virginton said:

    ^^^ Tory scum found 

    The idea that there was a landlord who had an unalienable property right to the land with no obligation to the inhabitants did not drop down from the sky. It was a similar injustice constructed at the exact same stage of early bourgeois capitalism as the transatlantic slave trade. 

    As for reparations for slavery, the reality of complex family backgrounds means that with any genuine scrutiny we would fast run out of truly  spotless 'deserving' recipients. The elites of African states enslaved other Africans for the profits offered by the escalation of an existing and reprehensible trade to their state. African warriors likely took a cut of that profit just like ancient Assyrian soldiers did. That doesn't make them hypocrites or traitors - they were responding rationally to the incentives in that historical context. There are very few solid grounds for compensating a post-colonial state in Africa or its current elite.

    If we really want to try to  compensate for slavery, we should devote more aid to the only state in the world produced entirely from a successful slave revolt - Haiti - which has suffered from being an international pariah state for at least 150 years.

    ^^^ Says the man with the attitude to his imagined lessers, wannabe slavemaster imo.

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