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If it really was a hate channel then the former Secretary for Hate would have been offered a central role in the channel as soon as she was forced to abdicate from her previous job.

How Juneau?

The origins of the EU were the result of countries who never wanted to experience anything like WW2 again, regardless of which side they were on. By contrast, the UK still has people who thought it was all jolly good fun.

Imagine the Dutch have FTFP. This results in two major parties getting most of the votes and Wilders not getting anyone elected. However one party is vulnerable to losing votes to Wilders and so he is able to yank their chain and get them to do what he wants. The other party has a bigger problem sharing votes with several other parties and thus loses more elections than it wins. Suddenly Nexit is a possibility because of a flawed electoral system. Sound familiar?

Did you remember to take your stuff out of the bin?

Somebody needs to step up to the plate and do something about this.

Did the rest of them come over in big boats? Asking for a friend.

Not sure if this is the right thread but Aldous Huxley and C.S. Lewis died 60 years ago today. Sometimes gets overlooked. Don't know why.

In 1984 some newspaper had an article "Why is there an Edinburgh Arts Festival? Why not Nether Wallop." In response, various comedians organised the "First ever International Arts Festival of Nether Wallop". Billy Connolly was the final act. Weekend in Wallop - YouTube

Won't that conflict with the trade deal signed between Clackmannanshire and China?

Which is why I still suspect Colombo. "Hey, Colombo. Where's the wife?" "Oh, look. There she is, with her own show." Except she never appears on his show and he never appears in hers. Classic Hollywood trope of hiring someone to pretend to be the wife, just enough to throw the police off the scent. They are not fooling me.

Speaking of which, did you ever get to see the wife? Very suspicious if you ask me.

I thought it was someone who lived in Cheeseburg.

"America's Back Porch" by Daniel Jeffrey is a great read. It is similar to Louis Theroux and involves encounters with various oddballs in America. A couple of chapters are about people who try to bump off their loved ones but not in a clever way.

Why not go the whole hog and revert to an absolute monarchy. Old Chuck seems less controversial than any of the current government. We pay his wages as it is. All these people complaining about boat people and everything else - he just issues a decree for whatever. The complainers are hardly going to go against the monarchy, are they? Just a thought.

The joke was that she was asked on the radio "what's your name and where are you from?" She missed the first part of the question and replied "I'm fay Fife."

Not my place maybe but if you are his boss, I think you should say it to his face instead of via P&B

Discovering the Ramones were not actually brothers. Oh no, Tommy has left the band. That's okay. Marky is another brother and he can play the drums too!

He called the Referendum and then did a piss poor job campaigning for Remain, enlisted the help of Jeremy Corbyn (who was always ambivalent on the matter) and decided that nobody from the EU should be involved in the campaign - you know the people who actually knew the benefits of the organisation and might have been able to explain things better (except they were foreign - I know).

Interesting. So is New York called the Big Apple because it has more Apple Macs?

.. or if that sounds too retro then just call them thugs.

I would not dispute that. For ordinary Russians he was dangerous to know. I was simply pointing out that in the Cold War both side made excuses for their new German Allies that had only recently been their enemies.

As soon as WW2 came to an end, the Cold War resumed. The West needed ordinary Germans on their side to help them and similarly the Soviets needed their Germans to help too. East Germans were taught that all the bad Germans had fled to the West since they wouldn't like the Worker's paradise in the East. Basically "a big boy did it and ran away" but on a much bigger scale and both sides were at it.