Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,075
Stone cold sober. Just very worried about what is happening in and to my country.
Read your history. The revolution always starts with 'reasonable' demands and always ends with the denunciations, the show trials and the prison camps.
Long hot summer coming up?
Be careful what you wish for ....
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/rioting-could-break-out-across-uk-in-coming-months-amid-fallout-over-coronavirus-government-advisor-a4464431.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1591764297"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,920
Bob
With Boris clearly out of control and very little leadership, he moves now to politics
Look at the virus
He started off saying its the scientist view (trying not to take blame)
It ended with a number of scientists clearly disagreeing with the road the govt was taking.
This Govt /party isn't Known for protecting the lower paid, and its been very difficult to be critical of him.
He looks awful under close scrutiny
And has clearly moved away from allowing scientists to speak.
Reducing police numbers then wondering why we are in a state of dispair on law and order.
The list goes on......
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
life go's on to keith. but hey who cares.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Ross Miller
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 17 Sep 2008
- Posts: 3,705
Gosh lots of "ifs, buts and maybes" in that piece from the Standard
I think you are being a tad melodramatic Cap'n, but I do share your concern at the simplistic solutions to complex historical problems being suggested by some groups.
Whilst some statues, like Colson's, probably ought to be removed, others like Baden Powell's (or Churchill's) ought to have additional materials/plaques putting their life and achievements into a proper context
Brian Dixon, Jan Higgins and Judith Roberts like this
"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
Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,257
What would you suggest to add on a plaque to go with those two statues in particular Ross that would put them in a proper context?
Arte et Marte
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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'Baden Powell - the man who put the 'wog' in woggle'?
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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- Posts: 8,075
Cleese nails it.
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See how it works yet?
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Ye Gods! Just turned on the radio to find J K Rowling is being savaged by the 'cocks in frocks' brigade.
Here's Alice Cooper. Enjoy a musical interlude while you still can ...
https://g.co/kgs/EqcCnr"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Whoops! Etta James (a much better version).
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,065
Wasn't Pee Wee Herman arrested for this sort of thing?
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Which sort of thing?
Thought it was for playing with his todger in a cinema and later for possesion of pornography?
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Dover Pilot- Registered: 28 Jul 2018
- Posts: 346
Farage has yet to comment on his departure but his LBC producer tweeted to say he had learned the news via social media. The LBC presenter James O’Brien tweeted: “We got our station back.”
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Sinking ship apart from @steveallenshow
Even @NickFerrariLBC sounding 'tired'.
Anyone listening to @LBC outside Islington?
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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IF HMG had any balls the next move for Farage would be to the House of Lords .
Like it or not he had more input into British Politics than anyone else over the past decade.
Meanwhile we've got Floella Benjamin and Stephen Lawrence's mum?
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Lenny Henry! The funniest thing he was in was Dawn French.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
- Posts: 1,299
Farage in the Lords would be great. He couldn't do much damage there.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Martin Looter King's sister not a happy bunny at people (foreigners obvs) protecting their property!
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ONE black police death in custody in the UK and this is what's coming up!
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"