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21 minutes ago, Miguel Sanchez said:

They're not giving you money off. They're raising the price then letting you buy it at the original price by signing up.

This is it. I used to be in there all the time, especially for a meal deal if I was near one during lunch but I'm not being held to ransom by them for not joining their daft club... I just want a BLT, a packet of crisps and a juice! 

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Police blamed after human error led to M9 tragedy - BBC News

Just short of 9 years from the accident occurring to the Fatal Accident Inquiry concluding. So long has passed the sheriff made not 1 recommendation - as all been implemented already or now irrelevant.

This case took 10yrs: Aberdeen police custody death 'might have been avoided' - BBC News

Ludicrous system.

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2 hours ago, HibeeJibee said:

Police blamed after human error led to M9 tragedy - BBC News

Just short of 9 years from the accident occurring to the Fatal Accident Inquiry concluding. So long has passed the sheriff made not 1 recommendation - as all been implemented already or now irrelevant.

This case took 10yrs: Aberdeen police custody death 'might have been avoided' - BBC News

Ludicrous system.

Radio Scotland had a senior polis on in relation to this. Spent almost the entire interview going on about how underfunded the force is.

 

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23 hours ago, eez-eh said:

Tesco is a bump these days even with a Clubcard. On the odd occasion I shop there I’m always perplexed when I find out the total at the till.

Try shopping at Zabka in Poland,truly perplexing

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On 31/05/2024 at 12:47, HibeeJibee said:

Police blamed after human error led to M9 tragedy - BBC News

Just short of 9 years from the accident occurring to the Fatal Accident Inquiry concluding. So long has passed the sheriff made not 1 recommendation - as all been implemented already or now irrelevant.

This case took 10yrs: Aberdeen police custody death 'might have been avoided' - BBC News

Ludicrous system.

Still no comment on the earlier human error that led to the situation in the first place?  I understand the need to ensure services are working correctly but they should still acknowledge that, in 99.9% of car crashes, the car doesn't fly off the road on it's own.  Somewhere there has to be responsibility on the poor decisions we make.

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37 minutes ago, Alert Mongoose said:

they should still acknowledge that, in 99.9% of car crashes, the car doesn't fly off the road on it's own. 

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15 minutes ago, Hedgecutter said:

Great way of honouring the non-English veterans here:

 

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"Remembrance"? Stupid cnut doesn't even know what makes up the UK.

Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland getting their usual respect.

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12 minutes ago, Salt n Vinegar said:

"Remembrance"? Stupid cnut doesn't even know what makes up the UK.

Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland getting their usual respect.

It's a quote from a 1914 Rupert Brooke poem 

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/13076/the-soldier

He died on the way to Gallipoli in 1915

In terms of remembrance it fall more on the "glorious and noble sacrifice" side than the "senseless waste of young lives, horrors of war..." side of things, which isn't to my taste, but if you're addressing a military audience then it's probably best to stay away from Wilfred Owen

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46560/dulce-et-decorum-est
 

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34 minutes ago, topcat(The most tip top) said:

It's a quote from a 1914 Rupert Brooke poem 

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/13076/the-soldier

He died on the way to Gallipoli in 1915

In terms of remembrance it fall more on the "glorious and noble sacrifice" side than the "senseless waste of young lives, horrors of war..." side of things, which isn't to my taste, but if you're addressing a military audience then it's probably best to stay away from Wilfred Owen

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46560/dulce-et-decorum-est
 

I'm aware of the source. If it doesn't apply, it doesn't apply. For a member of the "Royal Family" to use it, when representing "our" whole country, it's a huge disrespect. My late father would not have been happy to be remembered as someone who fought for "England" and neither would my late father in law.

You're right to refer the waste of lives though. The commemoration is even more poignant when you remember that since 1945 we appear to have learned absolutely nothing from the carnage.

 

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Watching the coverage of this you wouldn’t think the Soviet Union existed. The only mention I remember seeing today was some p***k on the BBC saying the soviets liberating France would have been worse than the nazi occupation! 

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On 23/05/2024 at 19:56, Sherrif John Bunnell said:

The woke mob have defaced are sacred flag again.

 

Are these ignorant little runts seriously going to swan about Germany with a flag displaying "no surrender" and "lest we forget". 

If they do I give then literally minutes before they are either lifted, battered or (preferably) both.

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48 minutes ago, Salt n Vinegar said:

I'm aware of the source. If it doesn't apply, it doesn't apply. For a member of the "Royal Family" to use it, when representing "our" whole country, it's a huge disrespect. My late father would not have been happy to be remembered as someone who fought for "England" and neither would my late father in law.

You're right to refer the waste of lives though. The commemoration is even more poignant when you remember that since 1945 we appear to have learned absolutely nothing from the carnage.

 

I certainly wouldn’t describe myself as a royalist but at least his dad mentioned the fact that many nationalities took place in the landings and that troops were also involved in fighting in many other parts of the world at the time. 
 

I wonder if 1895 UK was as focused on the Napoleonic Wars as many in these islands still are with WW2. 

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