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      CommentAuthorMarselus
    • CommentTimeMay 28th 2012
    Timmer wrote
    Today I saw a child with a massive head.

    biggrin

    Pictures?
    Anything with an orchestra or with a choir....at some point will reach you
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeMay 28th 2012
    With the parents around? I think not. dizzy
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
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      CommentAuthorutelark
    • CommentTimeMay 28th 2012
    Thank you guys, I do now understand my cat a lot better! meow!
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeMay 28th 2012
    Steven wrote
    Sometimes I meow at cats and they meow back.


    It means 'sorry, I don't speak dog'.
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeMay 28th 2012
    That creep Tony Blair was on the news, I couldn't help noticing that he gesticulates like C3PO.
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
  6. Doesn't the very sight of him make you angry?
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    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeMay 28th 2012
    YES!!! angry crazy
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
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      CommentAuthorMarselus
    • CommentTimeMay 28th 2012
    Timmer wrote
    That creep Tony Blair

    biggrin
    Anything with an orchestra or with a choir....at some point will reach you
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeMay 28th 2012
    I like Tony Blair.
    I am extremely serious.
  10. I like pizza.
    The views and opinions of Ford A. Thaxton are his own and do not necessarily reflect the ones of ANYONE else.
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      CommentAuthorMartijn
    • CommentTimeMay 28th 2012 edited
    Thor wrote
    I like Tony Blair.

    As do I.
    But then I liked Thatcher as well.

    Oddly neither puts me in any good graces with my British friends (but then neither would suggesting a preference for any other single prime minister, prime ministerial candidate or leader of the opposition in the history of British parliamentary history (with the possible exception of Winston Churchill). Brits are odd that way. )
    'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeMay 28th 2012
    I don't want to get into political discussion, I'll end up getting heated with nowhere to go.

    Tony Blair? Liked him to begin with but he turned into smarmy slimeball who made up war stuff.

    Margaret Thatcher? There's not many people I wish ill to but she is one of them.
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
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      CommentAuthorMartijn
    • CommentTimeMay 28th 2012
    biggrin
    I wonder how the balding Welsh git would have fared?
    'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeMay 28th 2012
    AKA The Welsh Windbag...... god knows? He'd have probably ended up being hated too.
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
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      CommentAuthorMartijn
    • CommentTimeMay 28th 2012
    biggrin The Crown rests, m'Luhd.
    'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn
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      CommentAuthorplindboe
    • CommentTimeMay 28th 2012
    Thor wrote
    I like Tony Blair.


    Me too. But then, he wasn't prime minister of my country for 10 years, so I'm judging him more by charisma than politics.

    Peter smile
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeMay 28th 2012
    plindboe wrote
    Thor wrote
    I like Tony Blair.


    Me too. But then, he wasn't prime minister of my country for 10 years, so I'm judging him more by charisma than politics.

    Peter smile


    Same here. But I certainly agree with much of his politics too.
    I am extremely serious.
  18. Putting Blair's politics aside, what would him not being PM of your country for ten years have to do with anything?

    Hitler wasn't the Fuhrer of any other country but his. Stalin, Lenin, Mao, Kim Jong-Dead, all rulers of their own countries back during their time. Would we then judge them by character traits?

    Utter nonesense.
    The views and opinions of Ford A. Thaxton are his own and do not necessarily reflect the ones of ANYONE else.
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      CommentAuthorThor
    • CommentTimeMay 28th 2012
    justin boggan wrote
    Putting Blair's politics aside, what would him not being PM of your country for ten years have to do with anything?

    Hitler wasn't the Fuhrer of any other country but his. Stalin, Lenin, Mao, Kim Jong-Dead, all rulers of their own countries back during their time. Would we then judge them by character traits?


    Nice company you put Blair in with there.
    I am extremely serious.
  20. I said politics aside. Though politically, he's not. You missed the point of the post completely.
    The views and opinions of Ford A. Thaxton are his own and do not necessarily reflect the ones of ANYONE else.
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      CommentAuthorplindboe
    • CommentTimeMay 28th 2012
    justin boggan wrote
    Putting Blair's politics aside, what would him not being PM of your country for ten years have to do with anything?


    It's alot easier to tire of politicians when they're on every time you turn on the telly. Their decisions also have a greater influence on your life, and you're confronted with their errors much more frequently. Distance often gives a different perspective, though usually a less informed perspective. Tell me which of these points aren't facts.


    justin boggan wrote
    Hitler wasn't the Fuhrer of any other country but his. Stalin, Lenin, Mao, Kim Jong-Dead, all rulers of their own countries back during their time. Would we then judge them by character traits?


    No we wouldn't, because you've chosen some extreme examples.


    justin boggan wrote
    Utter nonesense.


    No. Just a factual observation. I'm reminded about my own prime minister. She has had the most catastrophic start of a danish government probably ever, and her party would be tiny today with a new vote. Yet, whenever I read about her in the foreign press, there's nothing but praise. Distance tends to change perspective, whether you want to acknowledge it or not.

    Peter smile
  22. It is utter nonesense. You blew by the point, so I'll have to spell it out plainly:

    You want to judge a man based on his character traits just because he wasn't your ruler/leader/PM/what ever.

    Absurd. When you find a composer from another country you've never heard of before, do you judge him by his music of his character traits, simply because he's never scored any of your country's films?

    People have histories and when they are well known like that, we have a history to judge.


    I don't give a rats ass if Kim Jong-Dead was a nice guy or not.
    The views and opinions of Ford A. Thaxton are his own and do not necessarily reflect the ones of ANYONE else.
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeMay 28th 2012 edited
    Edit : in reply to Peter's post

    Oh, I don't know, from long distance the Brits also hated G dubya Bush and mocked Reagan but tended to love Peanut man and Clinton. In more recent times we've looked down at Sarkozy ( as did everyone else including his own wife ) and despise despots like the evil Mugabe.
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
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      CommentAuthorplindboe
    • CommentTimeMay 28th 2012 edited
    justin boggan wrote
    It is utter nonesense. You blew by the point, so I'll have to spell it out plainly:

    You want to judge a man based on his character traits just because he wasn't your ruler/leader/PM/what ever.


    Want? No, it's nothing to do with want. Ideally charisma shouldn't be a factor, but it's a fact that we all as social creatures judge people by charisma and appearance. You do it too, Justin, whether you realize it or not. Anyway, I never got to vote for the guy, so my judgement of him has no consequences. I would have judged him much more critically had I had the opportunity to vote for him.

    Tell me, Justin. Are you tired of Helle Thorning-Schmidt yet? Are you as fed up by her government forgetting all their promises to the danish people as danes are? Does it bother you that her government is continuing the policies of the last government, despite promising huge changes? Are her mannerisms and use of spin doctors beginning to tire you? Do any of these things keep you up at night? I'm guessing you've never really cared much if anything, and please don't try to claim that you care as much about danish politics as danes do.


    justin boggan wrote
    Absurd. When you find a composer from another country you've never heard of before, do you judge him by his music of his character traits, simply because he's never scored any of your country's films?


    Music isn't politics. Politics have much greater effects on people in the affected areas, than people outside of them. The enjoyment of music on the other hand will not be affected by the country of origin of the composer. This is just one of the myriad ways that your analogy fails. Please stop making analogies, because you're not good at it, and flawed analogies are one of my pet peeves.


    justin boggan wrote
    People have histories and when they are well known like that, we have a history to judge.


    I don't give a rats ass if Kim Jong-Dead was a nice guy or not.


    Me neither. Never said I did. He was a mass-murderer, so no one would judge him by his personality traits. Why you choose to interpret a comment on the likability of a single politician as a general rule on how to judge all politicians I find rather puzzling.

    Peter smile
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      CommentAuthorplindboe
    • CommentTimeMay 28th 2012 edited
    Timmer wrote
    Edit : in reply to Peter's post

    Oh, I don't know, from long distance the Brits also hated G dubya Bush and mocked Reagan but tended to love Peanut man and Clinton. In more recent times we've looked down at Sarkozy ( as did everyone else including his own wife ) and despise despots like the evil Mugabe.


    You and me both. I've never said that people don't or shouldn't care about politics in other countries. Just pointing out that it's a fact that distance is a factor. People who are more affected by a politician will tend to harbour stronger feelings. Tony Blair is just an individual whose international impact I don't have strong feelings about, so when judging his likability other factors are more important to me. Had he caused genocide, this would of course be my prime concern, and I couldn't find him likable.

    Why it matters so much to Justin whom I like or not, I'm not sure, as it's of no consequence.

    Peter smile
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      CommentAuthorMartijn
    • CommentTimeMay 29th 2012
    It's probably affected by distance anyway.
    'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn
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      CommentAuthorSouthall
    • CommentTimeMay 29th 2012 edited
    I think Blair's intentions were probably originally good but he quickly succumbed to the corruptions of power. For all the web of corruption around him, his worst crime was inheriting the strongest economic position in the country since WWII and somehow managing to contrive the mess we are now in. Why didn't he fix the roof while the sun was shining? But that's the sort of thing very unlikely to be seen from afar - I know the global perception was that he was a man of charisma and a good statesman. I think his personality could be summed up by the two sentences he used to open his press briefing on the day of Princess Diana's death: "Now is not the time for soundbites. I feel the hand of history on my shoulders."

    The much-despised Thatcher radically shifted the country during her years in power - it strikes me that some things she did were for the better, some for the worse - but she certainly stood by her convictions and put them into practice. Whereas Blair seemed to truly believe that if he said something, it was true - he could stand up and talk about how much better education or healthcare or policing or whatever had become, people would cheer and nod, but any kind of reasoned analysis would reveal the hollowness of his words.
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      CommentAuthorStavroula
    • CommentTimeMay 29th 2012
    Blair ... I have many "fun" memories of this guy form the war in Yugoslavia...

    Just a random thought... if I start rubbing an old burnt lamp I have will it do the move from house to house for me? Is Alladin single or is he still with Jasmine? Am I too tired or am I loosing it?
    Whatever you gaze rests on,do not use your vision, but the eyes of your soul...She knows better...
  29. To answer your questions:

    No. Probably still with Jasmine. Too tired.
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      CommentAuthorMarselus
    • CommentTimeMay 29th 2012 edited
    Southall wrote
    Why didn't he fix the roof while the sun was shining?


    Same could be said of Spain. I still remember 7-8 years ago, when we all thought we were rich (specially politicians, ALL of them) and things couldn't go better. Look at us now, 25% rate of unemployment, a political / corruption scandal per week, and rescuing banks with public money while the very same people that ruled these banks in the good ol' times retire with pornographic compensations.

    :chapeau:
    Anything with an orchestra or with a choir....at some point will reach you

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