@whisht

Thanks mucho!

I couldn’t remember who it was that partook in the Beastie Boys here. Almost just tagged everybody. 🙂

I’ll just leave this here as I walk out the door. Be back soon.  😀

And please @pedant.

Don’t bother @craig with yet another complaint about me. Yeah, we know, you’re ‘special’. He’ll get the gist. As a wise man once said (it may have been @whisht) “go fuck yourself”.

No m’dear @blenkinsopthebrave. He’s a massive bellend with no sense of when he has gone too far. I have awakened and any further infractions will be deleted.

@pedant

Reviewing your conduct towards other members has made me reach for the mind bleech. You really are an objectionable tit of the most massive proportions. I will take pleasure in…[Read more]

@whisht

I don’t remember ever hearing much of a coherent argument for principled reasons to leave the EU (a lot of empty phrases and lies).

I would say that this was possibly because the ‘principled reasons’ weren’t your primary goods, so you may have dismissed them as empty phrases – not realising that they were deeply important to a lot of p…[Read more]

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Gosh, I go on holiday and come back to six mentions.

There is one thing on which we agree absolutely.

But within a few minutes we covered quite a lot off ground because we fusking listened to each other.

Yes. A thousand times yes. We need to f*ck*ng listen to each other. Not shut conversations down. Don’t assume one side is virtuous…[Read more]

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Whatevs. Yesterday the Premier League used the anti-racism protocol for the first time at Spurs-Chelsea (incorrectly – they lacked the balls to take the teams off, as the protocol requires) and Stormzy got monstered by major media who changes “Yes, 100%” (meaning yes, definitely) to “Stormzy says Britain os 100% racist”).

I am sure this…[Read more]

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I’m really sorry if it sounded like I thought all uncomfortable feelings are racist. Above, in my post, I was trying to simplify things but I probably wasn’t using the right words. And you’re right, it’s not a game.

when uncomfortable people come together they multiply into those who are angry & …don’t separate fact/fiction.

Yes I was w…[Read more]

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As I am sure you are aware, Wellingborough is about 8 miles up the A45 from Northampton. It is where my brother lives, with his wife.

His Polish wife. (It only took her 21 years to get British citizenship from first application.)

She puts a huge strain on the education system…by being a teacher.

Some her her friends put a huge strain…[Read more]

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Not really the point I was getting at. History is littered with reasonable people appeasing the unreasonable. I cannot think of a single instance where it ended well. Pretending that they have a point just eggs them on. This applies to idiot Corbynites as well as racists.

@whisht

Another question: if someone is using weasel words to downplay their motives, how is it possible to avoid the conclusion they aren’t being honest about their true motives? And in the absence of honesty how is it possible to have debate?

And given the hatred they have unleashed, what can they possibly do to make amends.

@pedant @whisht  @arbutus

Hey YOU! You’ve been gone a very. Long. Time 🙁

I hope all is well in the Arbutus manor?

And that reminds me of another manor!  The @idiotsavon castle!

I spent, ooh, about 3 hours last night watching Listen & reading all the comments. I’m a-watching all of the Peter Capaldi years again. How beautiful. I was reading a…[Read more]

@whisht You covered some of the things I have been mulling over since this conversation started. I can only speak for the left in South Australia where there are some black and white attitudes regarding Israel and Palestine which do lead people to be blinded to faults on one or other side. I suspect that is being exploited by the right to both…[Read more]

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Yes! I love both the music and the film of Once Upon a Time in the West. Fabulous.

It would be easy to offer another bite of the score, but what you provided is the best. Instead, I offer up one of my favourite film scores of all time, by Erich Wolfgang Korngold. The music is a perfect counterpoint to the movie. I cannot say more,…[Read more]

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No problem.

This is an earlier Dixie Chicks, a version of a Patty Griffin song that I am fairly sure is craftily obscene, in the same way – but rather darker – as Roam, discussed upthread:

And the glorious White Trash Wedding:

@whisht

I think mum was muttering about “embarrassed xenophobia.” I had to look it up! It’s suggesting that if a group are uncomfortable, they’re feeling “dis-ease” or “ill at ease.” When one person thinks this way it might be fine. If a group is born from that feeling they might feel embarrassed about being xenophobic. Eventually if more people…[Read more]

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They’re not racist, but… they’re uncomfortable.

“I’m not a racist, but…”

Yes. They are. Stop making excuses for them.

@blenkinsopthebrave You did, you thought right the 1st time & you’re right the 2nd time (or is that the 3rd?). I was aiming for pithy. Instead you got the pith. 🙂  That was my first ever CD -$29.99.

Thank you. We do need an uplift.

@whisht @pedant

Dixie Chicks

@whisht  @mudlark    @thane16

Hi  – So  where I am coming from is that you got a PM that has critical thinking skills in 4 languages

We have the orange idiot that is challenged in his native tongue.  You have a guy who’s hero is Churchill.

We got a guy that never wants to read anything but yet astonishingly has read Mein Kamph and admir…[Read more]

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Natalie Maines is a quite extraordinary singer and Emily Robison and Martie Maguire are superb musicians . This is sung entirely at the top of her register and is quite breathtaking (check the lyrics and see what a heartbreaker this song is).

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100 plays on Spotify, or a 99p purchase on iTunes.