Arson attacks on French high speed rail.
- Captain Haddock
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26 July 2024 12:38385297A series of fires has hit French high-speed rail lines, hours before the Paris Olympics opening ceremony
Rail company SNCF says it's a "massive attack aimed at paralysing the network"; France's transport minister condemns the "co-ordinated malicious acts"
Some 800,000 customers will be affected with disruption expected all weekend, the rail firm says
One in four Eurostar services will be cancelled until Monday
Authorities have moved quickly to bring in an expert to understand how a country's rail network can be crippled so quickly
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson - Jan Higgins
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26 July 2024 17:13385302This amateur 'expert' says you just heat the rails enough in a quiet area to buckle them. Can i claim a financial
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26 July 2024 21:27385304God, that opening ceremony was dull.
So that Lady Ga Ga is French?
Bored already.
Living in Deal I only have to go down to the beach to see foreigners waving from small boats.
This must be the worst French display on water since Villeneuve’s humiliation at Trafalgar.
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Dr. Hunter S Thompson - Captain Haddock
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26 July 2024 22:41385305Just the French lampooning the Last Supper. Jesus an obese woman, his disciples transvestites. That’s all.
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Dr. Hunter S Thompson - Reginald Barrington
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26 July 2024 23:05385306Captain Haddock wrote:Just the French lampooning the Last Supper. Jesus an obese woman, his disciples transvestites. That’s all.
Pretty much sums up all we need to know about the French!Arte et Marte - Weird Granny Slater
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28 July 2024 10:59385313Well, it's not just France. Pretty much all the west enjoys the same high level of wholesome family entertainment.
This is why we need to continue to grant elite privileges and pass more special protective legislation in favour of minority groups, and prepare for war against 'the big four' dictators who threaten the free democracies in which our advanced form of self-expression can flourish.
Civilisation depends upon your willingness to defend at all costs on-repeat officially-sanctioned Christ-mocking images of beached whales in tiaras against mean posts emanating from Deal. Are you willing?'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus - Captain Haddock
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28 July 2024 22:20385317They've apologised. So that's alright then.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/jul/28/paris-olympics-organisers-apologise-to-christians-for-last-supper-parody
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Dr. Hunter S Thompson - Keith Sansum1
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31 July 2024 20:51385351Totally messed up many people .
Looking across the world and at some of the leaders
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