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On 29/06/2021 at 23:55, tamthebam said:

June 28th is Vidovdan (St Vitus Day) in Serbia, the anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo, which is sort of like the Serbs' equivalent of the Boyne for the Staunch here.

As Austria-Hungary had annexed Bosnia in 1908, Franz turning up on June 28th in Sarajevo was a bit like Pope Francis turning up in Belfast on July 12th.

Well it might be if the Austrians had been the opposition, but it was the Turks. 

Swing and a miss, etc

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33 minutes ago, TAFKAM said:

Was thinking it'll be interesting if any of these perennial accounts go quiet for a period while they change all their emails and phone numbers. You always assume these folk will be clever about it and use burners to make it difficult to be traced and then they don't. I'm sure that Brian Spanner account nearly got compromised a while ago and spent a few days making grovelling apologies for all the horrendously sexist things they'd been saying about female political figures before normal service resumed.

I'd completely forgotten about Spanner. Tbf back in the day I preferred his pure hatred to the little weasely hangers on like twlldun, ern malley and, of course, jk Rowling 

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11 minutes ago, coprolite said:

Can you remember what you were doing when it came through on the wireless? 

Wireless? Sheets of vellum, loon, sheets of vellum.

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3 hours ago, Jacksgranda said:

Well it might be if the Austrians had been the opposition, but it was the Turks. 

Swing and a miss, etc

Not really. The Black Hand Organisation to which Gavrilo Princip belonged were Serb nationalists protesting against the Austrians annexation of Bosnia. The Austrian heir to the throne turning up on the Serbs' National Day was a bit provocative. 

And if Franz's driver hadn't taken a wrong turning he might not have been shot. 

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8 minutes ago, tamthebam said:

Not really. The Black Hand Organisation to which Gavrilo Princip belonged were Serb nationalists protesting against the Austrians annexation of Bosnia. The Austrian heir to the throne turning up on the Serbs' National Day was a bit provocative. 

And if Franz's driver hadn't taken a wrong turning he might not have been shot. 

Yes, really.

Your original analogy was flawed. It would be like Eamon de Valera or Michael Collins turning up on the 12th, particularly as the pope was on King Billy's side.

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4 hours ago, Jacksgranda said:

Yes, really.

Your original analogy was flawed. It would be like Eamon de Valera or Michael Collins turning up on the 12th, particularly as the pope was on King Billy's side.

Ach, jebem te sunce! 🇷🇸 :P

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Without any background information you just have to look at him to know he's a complete w****r.
He's half resigned now [emoji23] Left the ruling group but still collecting his salary as a Councillor until next year. What a fucking shambles.
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Conservatives’ susceptibility to political misperceptions

Consistent with other studies, we find that American conservatives are more likely than liberals to hold misperceptions. 

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/23/eabf1234

American conservatives are gullible fuckwits.  QED.

Holds true for the UK, obviously.  See: Brexit.

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