DT1- Location: Dover
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#21
#18 Oh, you got me again Keith. You added that rather crafty calculation on afterwards!
But then on the upside if they are foreigners doing all this then they are probably using a long scale billion instead of a short scale billion and by that reasoning the units would then work out at £3,100,000,000 - in which case we are getting a bargain.
DT1- Location: Dover
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#22
I can never remember posting anything about good value.
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#23
Are you vey young mister DTI .
I have note test a certain chillness in your posts ??
Guest 671- Registered: 4 May 2008
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#24
I did not watch it so have no opinions .
The below opinions are from 2 Yorkshire miners, I thought you might be interested in their views.
Miner 1
Another exercise in this bizarre form of ethnic cleansing that is relentlessly writing us out of history. They hate us and, by Christ, they show it.
As far as I am concerned it was cheapjack cr-p from start to finish.
The industrial tableau - we smashed that. No miners? Ermm, we smashed them. The NHS? Ah, yes, we are very busy smashing that. Celebrating the victories of the boss class.
The whole thing looked like a dismal rip off from the Lord of the Rings trilogy right to down to Hobbiton in the shape of that idiotic grassy knoll that made the members of the armed forces look ridiculous as they carted the Union Flag up it. Like the armed forces or not, they don't deserve that. Working class youngsters are getting killed in Afghanistan for that shower of sh-t in Downing Street.
It was a toxic comination of cringeworthy nostalgia wrapped in flash new technology. A friend of mine who loves to wallow in the pathos of all our defeats loved it. That tells me all I need to know.
We belong to a dying society, murdered by by the spivs, fops, bulliesand bankers who run the show.
There was nothing that showed inspiration, imagination or innovation. Beijing in 2008 was absolutely riveting. The memory will last for ever.
This was a plastic pantomime. It will only last in the memory of morons.
Just an opinion, like.
But, then, I'm biased.
Graeme.
Miner 2
Is it just me? With my ex-miner chip on my shoulder?
Or were the coalminers; the single most important industry; just totally erased from history in that portrayal of Industrial Revolution Britain?
Cheers
Phil
"My New Year's Resolution, is to try and emulate Marek's level of chilled out, thoughtfulness and humour towards other forumites and not lose my decorum"
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#25
DT1 is quite young, Keith (compared with me) and IS a maths teacher!
I enjoy his posts very much, he's a master of the English language and doesn't suffer fools gladly
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
DT1- Location: Dover
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#26
Perhaps I should swear more, then I will look like a proper grownup.
DT1- Location: Dover
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#27
Thanks Peter, I enjoy your posts too.
Although in terms of eloquence, I think yourself and Tom win gold and silver.
*returns thread back to topic*
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#28
gary
you put 24 on the wrong thread, please see "opening ceremony" thread.
Ross Miller
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#29
And there was me thinking this thread was going to be about money belts or Eric Pickles
"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." - James Dean
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,
While loving someone deeply gives you courage" - Laozi
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#30
6 moths from now when all this bull....! has gone, like smoke in the wind.
We will look back at the massif nothingness; we have to show for it all.
The only thing we will have is the big borrowed debt we as a country will have to pay back.
When this country rolls over like Greece and Spain, and all you public servant types are crying into your beers that your wages haven't gone into the bank,
You can think back at the squandering of the Olympic fantasy, which helped get us in to this position.
Peter .25
I will retract my retaliation to peters attack in the interest of good forum relations
Jan Higgins
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#31
Keith Bibby..........
If you are insinuating Peter was not a successful publican you could not be further from the truth if you tried, your last sentence was very insulting but I have noticed before you are not the politest of people.
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DT1- Location: Dover
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#32
Agreed Jan.
Post #30 is nothing more than insulting and inaccurate beyond belief. It really is sad that you have to turn your hatred towards someone that is merely giving a description of my character (albeit unfairly complimentary). By no means would someone like Peter run someone down in the way that you are obviously accustomed.
I suggest you turn your aggression towards me...after all I supposedly have a gold-plated pension to deflect it!
NB. I realise that gold is a soft metal, before you accuse me of being a science teacher.
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#33
Your right jan its not good to call some one a fool, people shouldn't do it.
In a grown up word you must expect attack if your going to attack.
I except some of my views may be upsetting to some on this forum, but at the hart of my views, is democracy and free speech.
I have the right to say the 9.3 billon is a waist of public money, you have the right to disagree with me
Now lets all have a big forum kiss and be friends
I will retract my retaliation to peters attack in the interest of good forum relations.
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#34
Water off a duck's back, chaps, don't worry about me. Actually Keith, I wasn't suggesting you are a fool, merely commenting on how DT1's posts can sometimes seem a bit patronising. (That means talking down to people, Keith).
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#35
keith
2 points
1) there is no such thing as free speech, never has been, never will be.
if you doubt my word ask julian assange.
2) do you feel that it is correct to insult people and use obscenities in order to get a point over?
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#36
Free speech is a bit like the right to bear arms- use it freely without harming others.
But using it in self- defence is Ok too!
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
DT1- Location: Dover
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#37
Patronising Peter?...me?... You silly boy.
It's just the pedagogue in me.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#38
pedagogue?
you will have vigilantes putting your windows through.
DT1- Location: Dover
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#39
Only the stupid ones.
...oh...wait a second!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#40
who are those people with shaven heads carrying burning torches outside your house darren?
more importantly who is that chap passing water through your letterbox?