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Cameron stands by his criticism of Trump: “stupid, divisive and wrong”
Downing Street has said that Prime Minister David Cameron stands by his criticism of Donald Trump but will work with whoever is elected US president. UK PM has called the Republican hopeful “stupid, divisive and wrong” over his call for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the US. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesI think the US will save plenty of money to help with its debt when it doesn't need to fund presidential visits overseas. LOL
May 17th, 2016 - 07:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0Both inherited loads of dosh and entered politics.
May 17th, 2016 - 05:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0One is an average glib PR man and the other an extremely successful, multi billionaire businessman.
Cameron stands ?
May 17th, 2016 - 06:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0but for how long.
There is one thing that the British need to understand: Who is to be the US president is entirely the concern of Americans and that comments from the British in this regard are not welcome. The British need to remember that the UK is a freeloading American vassal nation.
May 18th, 2016 - 03:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0Irrespective of whomever is elected in November the British are in for a nasty shock. If Trump is elected then that shock is to occur very soon. If, as I expect, Clinton is elected them the shock will be delayed but it will still be coming. People are over supporting freeloaders like you - and the KSA and others.
@4
May 18th, 2016 - 06:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0So long as your country has military bases in my country I will maintain a keen interest in whomever your country chooses to elect President. Given the not insignificant possibility that your future leader maybe an intemperate fool with delusions of grandeur I consider that interest part of my civic duty.
Shut up Hepatia.
May 18th, 2016 - 09:11 am - Link - Report abuse 0You are such a fool.
You don't know US history, in fact you know very little world history at all.
You are just an anti-British sore assed Argentine who is still butthurt over the thrashing that we gave your ridiculous army in 1982.
Even the Americans on here know that you are not one of them.
ldiota.
(5)
May 18th, 2016 - 09:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://japanfocus.org/data/Ignore_the_kangaroo.jpg
#4
May 18th, 2016 - 09:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0Stop pretending to be an American. The syntax and grammar in your posts give you away. Also, I doubt that most Americans even know where the Falklands are and many could not even place the UK on a world map.
It is just your own bitter and twisted opinions that you keep pushing.
Maybe you should seek some counselling for anger management.
When can we expect your 25 years crap. I presume that this is on a pre-programmed app. triggered to go off at intervals when you cannot think of anything to say.
Anyway, keep up the good work. It brightens up my dreary day and gives me a self-satisfied glow to think that there is someone in a worse state than me.
Your secret admirer....or not ?
Lol,
May 18th, 2016 - 02:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0London was a shit hole when I visited 20 years ago and has only gown since then.
Just ask the victims families of the London bus attack what they think of the UK's intergration plan.
At least Trump isn't afraid to stand up to the PC crowd.
Who is the future Leader of the Free World is the concern of us all. But besides that, we are entitled to an opinion. Trump is a pathological liar and has cheated his way to a fortune. (Not as big a fortune as he likes to boast but he can't help but lie about it). He inherited most of his money from his slum-landlord father but tends to gloss over that fact. He was born into a rich family. That is no crime but he likes to make out he made his money from scratch and he didn't.
May 18th, 2016 - 03:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0That he has tapped into the uneducated (he loves the uneducated) Americans who are dissatisfied and want to find someone to blame is the real concern. That Americans would be so stupid as to fall for a populist and conman is profoundly worrying. That Trump is revengeful and has a huge but paper-thin ego is a worry to everyone.
I am not sure why the Argentineans here are excited about it - he hates you foreigners too. And don't worry about the 'special relationship' with the U.K. It only refers to information and intelligence sharing. That is all it has ever been and will continue to be.
@9 All cities have bad areas and I am sorry you were only able to afford to visit those areas. I am trying to think of when one of our footballers was shot dead on their doorstep protecting their child. Nope. That was Buenos Aires. Do you see how silly you look?
Turnipette at (10) says...:
May 18th, 2016 - 04:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0”I am not sure why the Argentineans here are excited about it (Trump)”
I say...:
Lets see...
(1) Skip is an Aussie...
(2) Englander is an... Englander...
(3) Briton is a... Londoner...
(4) Hepatia is of nationality unknown, but she doesn't have a Spanish syntax nor has she ever expressed herself in Spanish...
(5) Heissenbergcontext is a West Australian...
(6) Isolde is a petite Asian born British lass currently squatting in Malvinas...
(7) Think is 110% Argie :-)))
(8) Clyde15 is a West Coast, Sassenach loving Lowlander...
(9) Klingon “declares” that he lives in Argentina..., but he doesn't have a Spanish syntax either nor has he ever expressed himself in Spanish...
(10) ElaineB is an Engrish turnipette...
Seems to me that the only Argentinean posting on this thread is me...
And I'm certainly not excited about Mr. Trump...
The pm's and mayor's actions are predictable and justifiable considering the populations of London and the UK and the corresponding influence of the muslim world on them.
May 18th, 2016 - 05:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The UK's future dependence on the muslim world for a variety of its needs is alas unavoidable at this juncture.
#11
May 18th, 2016 - 06:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Clyde15 is a West Coast, Sassenach loving Lowlander...or MAYBE HE IS NOT !
Camoron has no right to visit his own deficiencies on others.
May 18th, 2016 - 06:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I have been a lifelong Conservative voter except when he showed up. Looking at his history and resume soon showed him to be a chancer and unworthy of a vote.
VOTE LEAVE!
4 Hepatia (#)
May 18th, 2016 - 06:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0There is one thing that the British need to understand=
that Argentina will be returned to the original inhabitants in 25 years time,
the trouble with Think tanks,
is its always Wrong.
@14 Do ex-pats get a vote? It is a serious question because I thought there was some doubt.
May 18th, 2016 - 06:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@11 Bless. You cannot understand a simple sentence. I didn't say everyone here is Argentine.
(13) Lowlander Clyde15
May 18th, 2016 - 07:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You certainly sound like one!
#17
May 18th, 2016 - 10:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0As an Argentinian, supposedly, how would you know? Define the lowlands to me and from your extensive knowledge, define the characteristics of those living there.
How many “lowland”Scots do you Know . How many Hebridean Scots, How many Border Scots. How many Outer Isle Scots, How many “Fifers”. You seem to set yourself up as an expert on all things Scottish. It smacks of a great conceit for yourself....again, I would class that as typical of the Argentinian psyche as demonstrated in your posts.
Ayrshire Mr. Think...
May 18th, 2016 - 10:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Need I say more...;-))))
Of course people everywhere have an opinion on the US election, it affects all of us when America is the most powerful country in the world.
May 18th, 2016 - 11:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I think the rest of the world should get a small share of the vote on the US president, but only if they accept observers from the US to make sure the elections are free and fair.
(18) Lowlander Clyde15
May 18th, 2016 - 11:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0...“You would class that as typical of the Argentinian psyche” you say....
How would you know..., I ask? Define Argentina to me and from your extensive knowledge, define the characteristics of those living there.
How many Argentineans do you know? How many Chubutean Argies. How many Catamarqueño Argies. How many Correntino Argies. How many “Puntanos”. You seem to set yourself up as an expert on all things Argentinean... It smacks of a great conceit for yourself....
(19) Mr. Voice
Must admit my near complete ignorance about that specific Shire...
Can't even remember any good malt from there... ;-)
What I do love about the UK is that everyone can have a national identity in addition to being British.
May 18th, 2016 - 11:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0As Think so nicely showed above.
Have to admit though, Cameron is excellent in the House of Commons.
May 19th, 2016 - 07:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0He takes poor old Corbyn apart and dismisses that SNP fart whenever he wants.
Don't know why he's so reluctant to take on Farage.
Anyway as this is Mercopress whats happening in Argentina these days? Is Kirchner in prison yet?
#21
May 19th, 2016 - 08:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0I know nothing about any individual Argentinian provinces or the characteristics of the people who live there. My only experience is of the people who post here OR the pronouncements of your government. To me, they all sing from the same hymn book.
You however, seem to profess a knowledge of differences between people who live either in the Highlands or Lowlands. How did you acquire this “wisdom” as an Argentinian ?
As usual, you dodge the question. Maybe your pal Voice can supply you with more info.
@ 16 ElaineB
May 19th, 2016 - 11:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0“Do ex-pats get a vote?”
The rules are very sample: all ex-pats get the vote up to 15 years of continuous residency abroad, after that NO.
You have, like us, to register with the Embassy in order to receive the papers on time.
Some people still in the UK seem to think no ex-pats should vote but we have all our pensions vested in the UK and I still have an interest in two properties.
And of course I still pay tax in the UK.
Perhaps you saw the legal action by a group who have lived on the continent for well over 15 years and are concerned that if a Brexit happens they may be chucked out. Frankly I just cannot see that happening, why should any country lose income, even if it comes from ex-pats?
I hope this helps.
@11 Think,
May 19th, 2016 - 11:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0…Think(says that he) is 1st generation RG, who has the gall to call 7th & 8th generation Falklanders,“squatters”.
When he himself is a squatter on stolen land.
Land that was stolen from people that the Argentines killed.
Think is a hypocrite & a nabo.
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May 19th, 2016 - 11:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0Tinker is actually a filthy creature best ignored.
He feeds off concern, outrage, disgust......especially from you.
If you ever agree to meet him for a candlelit at KFC....take a gun, pepper spray or knife.
@27 Good advice.
May 19th, 2016 - 12:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0l'll keep it in mind.
l know what Think is & try to expose him to others.
@25 Thanks. Yes, I think ex-pats should vote. They almost all return at some point - as is their right - and have vested interests as you say.
May 19th, 2016 - 02:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@28 We all know. He is pretty revolting.
Apparently thousands of British troops are not registered to vote,
May 19th, 2016 - 07:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0so they say.
Nothing wrong with Mr. Think just because his views differ from the usual Colonial anachronisms prevalent here...it doesn't make them any less valid...
May 19th, 2016 - 09:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So there....
24 Clyde15
If Mr. Think were Scottish he would probably be a Teuchter....;-)
“Nothing wrong with Mr. Think just because his views differ from the usual Colonial anachronisms prevalent here...”
May 20th, 2016 - 03:11 am - Link - Report abuse 0I would say that as Think condones and agitates for Argentine sovereignty over a foreign country.... that would make him the colonial anachronism actually.
http://en.mercopress.com/2016/05/17/cameron-stands-by-his-criticism-of-trump-stupid-divisive-and-wrong#comment440825: But you British have been hostile to American democracy for over 200 years. Your problem is that in that time the US has become the world's most powerful country and the UK has become a US vassal. So keep complaining. But keep in mind that the last time anybody in the US took account of anything that you British may have to say was in the 1760s.
May 20th, 2016 - 03:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0Stop stirring the pot Hepatia.
May 20th, 2016 - 07:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0Most of us actually like our US cousins.
But as you are an Argentine, how would you know?
Fyi, most people in the US in the 1760s WERE British.
As l said before, amiga, you know very little US history, or any history at all for that matter.
Bet you remember the Argentine defeat in 1982 though!
Does it still hurt, deeeary?
Tough bananas.
#33
May 20th, 2016 - 08:55 am - Link - Report abuse 0Your problem is that you don't know what you are talking about.
Do you remember the Vietnam war ? LBJ pleaded with the UK to send troops to bolster America's decision to help the corrupt S.Vietnam government.
We said..no way..hardly the act of a “vassal state”.
America's democracy was founded on Britain's laws and principles.
If you are an AMERICAN....very doubtful.....tell us something about your ethnic background and where you live.
@35 Clyde15,
May 20th, 2016 - 10:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0Several years ago, Hepatia was crowing that Latinos were increasing more in the USA than any other ethnic group & predicting, in fact looking forward to an eventual Latino majority.
l therefore have come to the conclusion that she(?) is a Latino of some sort & by her(?) support for Argentina's ridiculous “claims” is an Argentine.
Maybe even living in the US.
One thing for sure, she(?) doesn't like us.
l've never met an American with such hatred for us.
But of course a patriotic Argentine still smarting over the drubbing that we gave them would think like that.
So, Hepatia, old girl(?), got over your 1982 ass-reaming yet?
(31) Mr. Voice
May 20th, 2016 - 01:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I most certainly would......., if I were........, what I'm not.......
#37
May 20th, 2016 - 02:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You do know that Teuchter is a form of insult ? It means slow and dim witted.
Glad you agree.
38
May 20th, 2016 - 04:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0...and Sassenach isn't....?
We use Teuchter to describe rural...not dim witted....
...but you lowlanders in the metropolis may see it as an insult....
Cameron and Trump
May 20th, 2016 - 07:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0they will meet, at each end of the street
who is the fastest gun,
and which one will run,
which will survive the referendums,
and who will lose,
who will led us to the promised land,
only you lot can choose.
(38) Lowlander Clyde15
May 20th, 2016 - 08:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0To be called Teuchter by a Sassenach loving Lowlander ain't no insult in me ears...
Much on the contrary.......
Think showing his ignorance again……or is he just deflecting?
May 20th, 2016 - 09:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0That is up to his old tricks.
The Lowlands of Scotland were invaded & settled by the Angles, the same people who settled northern England.
Angles were kin to the Saxons.
That is why the Scottish people speak English(Angelish?).
ln fact it is said that the Lowlanders speak the most correct form of English (Angelish).
Not as much diluted by Scandinavian or Norman French.
Pull your head in Think & concentrate on where you are going to live when the surviving lndians of Patagonia take their land back & expel you squatting Argentines.
I am confused, are you voice or Think ...practically indistinguishable.
May 20th, 2016 - 09:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0WE..is this the Royal we or are you speaking for all Scots?
I have had colleagues ...native Gaelic speakers from Lewis and Inverness who took great exception being called “Teuchters” . To them the inference was that they were simple and dim witted.
You live in the Highlands? About 4 miles N. of the fault line.
Dunoon has more in common with the industrial belt than the Highlands.
“Aligned southwest to northeast from Lochranza on Arran, the Highland Boundary Fault bisects Bute and crosses the southeastern parts of the Cowal and Rosneath Peninsulas, as it passes up the Firth of Clyde. It comes ashore near Helensburgh, then continues through Loch Lomond.”
Who are“ you lowlanders living in the metropolis.” I was not aware that AYR was a metropolis.
Yes, you live in Cowal but were you borne there, were your parents Highland Scots, do you have a Highland surname. How about enlightening us. Are you scared of being caught out ?
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May 20th, 2016 - 11:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Nice of you to confirm that I'm in the Highlands and not the Lowlands...
There is nothing...“Industrial” here... you seem to forget without that ferry I would have to drive 82 miles to Glasgow instead of 35....
I'd pass a Munro and the bonnie bonnie banks of Loch Lomond...
Ayr IS a metropolis compared to here...
Hell ....I call Dunoon the metropolis....;-)))
Scared...?
I'm scared of nothing...and everything....
My family tree extends back to Ayrshire. How small is the world.
May 21st, 2016 - 12:11 am - Link - Report abuse 0Scotland
May 21st, 2016 - 12:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0Scottish Gaelic
https://www.uni-due.de/DI/Scottish_Gaelic.htm
interesting.
Voice of Think residents of Dunoon!
May 21st, 2016 - 10:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0https://youtu.be/mXFtGrvvQd8 have a laugh at Voicy's metropolis courtesy of Billy Connelly!
And this, a grey damp dump - https://youtu.be/mXFtGrvvQd8 What a colourful life Voice of Think must live. Tbe sheer beauty of Dunoon!
Bahahahaha.
And, add to this, a country run by Wonderwoman!
@ 47 The Voice
May 21st, 2016 - 10:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0Complete with a Scottish thug attempting to rob a car by the look of it. :o)
Or a drug dealer? Scotland has long been the smackhead capital of the UK.
May 21st, 2016 - 11:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0Lovely place… I did once walk up the local bump - Ben Lomond, an afternoon jaunt. There are a few decent scrambles in Scotland but my favourite place remains Chile, with Torres del Paine favourite.
#48
May 21st, 2016 - 12:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Why a Scottish thug ...he could be English. I can remember when the Yanks arrived in the Holy Loch. Train loads of English whores were steaming their way North on business trips.
“run by Wonderwoman!”
Christ almighty ! You have Boris and Farage as your great saviours !
I'll take wonderwoman.
#49
You must be a hell of a climber if you think the Ben Nevis cliffs are decent
scrambles.
This mountain has kept our SAR helicopter in Prestwick working overtime lifting experienced climbers OR their dead bodies from the cliffs.
Hmmm. Ben Nevis? Never climbed on that, walked up it, but these give you an idea. http://www.summitpost.org/the-routes-on-the-south-tower/14474/c-151366
May 21st, 2016 - 12:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The Cuillins are fun
However, Dunoon. :-( VoiceofThink is in the right place for her..
The Cowal peninsular is famous for bags of wind. Figures.
May 21st, 2016 - 12:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0(44) Mr. Voice...
May 21st, 2016 - 01:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Just googled some info about this Dunoon place in Scotland that seems to raise such anger, hate and envy among them Sassenachs...
Looks like a true World Metropolis to me...!
But, of course..., I'm somehow accustomed to smaller cities down here in me Chubutean nick of the woods like ”Buen Pasto, Aldea Apeleg or Nueva Lubecka... ;-)
Ha ha Mr. Think....
May 21st, 2016 - 02:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I call Dunoon the Metropolis because I don't actually stay in Dunoon, I'm a fair bit out amidst the scenery and hills...
I rarely go into Dunoon...
These folk are so sad that they attack a place in their frustration....weird...
Here is what it looks like with blue skies...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5GVyIBSP-4
Here is the Ben Nevis....“Scramble”....
Obviously not the “tourist” route....
That guy is hardy ...it's winter and he has no gloves on that old motorbike...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5GVyIBSP-4
The area surrounding Dunoon is even more dismal than Dunoon. And as for Sheilas, great place to go if you need a clearout. But then I Think you already know that. Anger, hate and envy? You mean derision, laughter and pity…
May 21st, 2016 - 03:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It has a lot in common with Patagonia - a rather boring backwater.
Boring...?
May 21st, 2016 - 04:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0A bit like yourself...
Could it be worse...
Yup...Old and boring...
Could it be worse....
Yup... Old, English and boring...
Could it be worse....
Yup... Old, Southern English and boring...
Could it be worse....
Yeah I reckon I could fill the page....
(54) Mr.Voice
May 21st, 2016 - 04:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Must thank you for that historic “Scramble” video link...
Was immediately taken by that “unknown” guy elegant technique and state of the art equipment (could you please identify the bike.).... A quick googleing on him explained why...
The production and filming quality of that video are also superlative for a 1976 piece... The explanation is in its end titles...
Produced by Mr. PATAGONIA himself !!!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yrYa3qkeu-I
Yaaawn… .
May 21st, 2016 - 04:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0But not boring tonight eh Voicy? Saturday night, an evening in the Dunoon Combined Services with Mr Think then its off to the chuppy for a Saveloy and a deep fried Mars Bar? Thats really living… in Dunoon :-))) Been on that ferry cruise yet windbag? Seems you have run out of wind… :-)))
#52
May 21st, 2016 - 04:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It is the Cowal peninsula NOT peninsular. Peninsula is the noun , peninsular is the adjective. If you wish to be taken seriously, brush up on your grammar.
#55
Tell us what paradise you live in so we can compare notes.
I take it you have actually climbed Torres del Paine. Well, you have my admiration if you did.
I didn't find the Cuillins “fun”. It scared the crap out of me.
In 1963 I joined my work colleague for a week end climbing in the Cuillins. He had done all the Munros by 1957, advised on the winter climbing routes in the Cuillins for the Scottish Mountaineering Club Guide. My other companion was a mountaineering guide for the Outward bound courses in Wester Ross and had climbed extensively in the Alps , Caucasus and Hindu Kush. He was also a good friend of Hamish MacInnes. I should have known better !
We set off from Sligachan to Sgur nan Gillean to traverse the Pinnacle Ridge - a good scramble with some rock climbing . What I was NOT told was that they were going to try some new pitches en route. It was a force 8 fog above 1000 feet and I followed in the middle of the rope. The serious stuff started when we -not me- tried a pitch with a steep overhang. The wind was trying to rip us off so that was abandoned and we had to do a traverse on an almost vertical cliff .
As the inexperienced man, I went second. It was tricky but manageable.
Suddenly the sun burned off the mist and below me was a vertical drop to death.
I clung on in a cold sweat with my hands like claws and legs shaking. I almost let myself go to get over the inevitable but made it round to my companion.
The next crux was the Bhasteir tooth. On going round this I managed to slip and dropped about a foot to be held by the rope. If that had not held me I would have bounced all the way down and ended up a jelly.
That cured me of any pretensions of being a mountain climber. After that it was hill walking. The Cuillins were not fun !
Clyde, Haha Hamish took his dog for a little jaunt doing all the Cuillins in 24 hours. Poor dog! I did a jaunt with Hamish in the Atlas. If you hadnt got ready in the morning by the time Hamish had eaten his porridge you got left behind. A bit of a grumpy old sod. I live in… a nicer place than Dunoon, but isnt anywhere nicer than Dunoon?
May 21st, 2016 - 05:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Why a Scottish ...he could be English,
May 21st, 2016 - 06:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0he could well be anything,
but one would suggest that he knows more abt Yorkshire pudding than he is letting on.
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May 21st, 2016 - 07:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It looks like a Norton Commando Mr. Think...
It's got cafe racer handlebars (drop bars), but a standard seat...
I can't see all of it, but I'm sure it is...
#62
May 21st, 2016 - 10:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0isnt anywhere nicer than Dunoon? In a word , no. I can think of and have been in umpteen worse places. Strangely enough, they have all been in England.
Havent you Scots got better things to do on a Saturday night? I thought the chippy had late night opening?
May 22nd, 2016 - 08:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0Norton Commando? That dates you Voicy, bus pass for you these days.. Am I English, I could inhabit the nether regions, even Helensburgh!
The imitation is not particularly bright....
May 22nd, 2016 - 08:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0If I was able to identify a Penny Black or a Tuppeny Blue...would that mean I was dead....?
Doh...I have three bikes...two I ride and one a 60 year old I'm restoring..
You are too much of a guttersnipe, to inhabit Helensburgh...
Your....“Peasant speak” is a give-away.....
A Walter Mitty window licker is my impression....
Hey I've got a lot of windows for you to clean...if you are ever in the area....
Haha, pathetic insults as a substitute for intelligent comment! Yes, I was dragged up, pedant spelling isnt important. My Rudge Ulster trumps your 50s junk. That was the era when the nips started to bite. Owned the Rudge since the 60s. Still, not much to do in Dunoon is there, a place for pensioners on low incomes. I can afford a street in Dunoon and half a street in Helensburgh, but wouldnt want to live in such provincial places.
May 22nd, 2016 - 09:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0Of course you were....
May 22nd, 2016 - 11:11 am - Link - Report abuse 0I can spot them a mile away...
You can put lipstick on a pig...but it's still a pig...
You can take the man out of the slums...but...
Whilst I'm happy to get into a dick measuring contest with you....
It would hardly be fair against a withered geriatric like yourself....
Post some photo's or dream on...window licker....
Show us some evidence of your worth....;-)))))
(67) Mr. Voice
May 22nd, 2016 - 12:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I think you are quite right about poster “The Voice” window-licking tendencies...
Guess who's the only poster that ever mentioned Rudge Cycles in here before...
http://en.mercopress.com/2015/09/01/francis-allows-priests-to-forgive-the-sin-of-abortion-during-the-holy-year#comment412800
Chuckle chuckle...
Tinka/voice
May 22nd, 2016 - 01:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Better a window licker than a cock sucker.
Can't imagine how you get around to it.
Perhaps you're a contortionist?
Turnip at (69)
May 22nd, 2016 - 03:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What's your problem with “cock suckers”?
Have met hundreds in me long life...
Excellent women most of them...!
Haha, VoiceofThink now having a discussion with herself! You couldnt make it up! Voicy showing his breeding and superior education by speaking from the gutter. I may be a little older than him but he would fill his pants several times over doing what I get up to in my leisure time. In Chile they have words for such people.
May 22nd, 2016 - 04:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Why dont you post a picture of you lead piping Voicy. Or is it just weilding a lead pipe as a bouncer outside the Golden Sea in Dunoon ..do tell? As for your Think personna, with the crotch sniffing Stink engages in as revealed by Elaine, I can believe every word!
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May 22nd, 2016 - 04:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Sure you have.
Bet none had their own teeth.
68
May 22nd, 2016 - 04:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What a coincidence Mr. Think...
What are the odds....methinks he's telling porkies...how embarrassing...;-)
I don't mind proving that I don't...
I've taken a photo in the sunny garden of the Voice Mobiles today....
...and here they are...The Bonneville and the Supermoto...
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7097/26568547163_33de167699_o.jpg
(73) Mr Voice
May 22nd, 2016 - 04:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Well.........................
That's Scotland alright...
No other place in the universe one can find so much moss in a lawn...!
:-)))
Micky mobiles! Wheres your scooter? Do you have a Parka? Ever been to the Revival - nah… Wouldnt let you in.
May 22nd, 2016 - 07:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The trolley dolly made a big mistake choosing Dunoon for a location. Obviously with no knowledge of Britain… .
...and so the Troll is left grasping at straws...
May 22nd, 2016 - 08:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Out of curiosity....does anyone know WTF he is taking about...?
74 Mr. Think
You have strange observations...I would never have even noticed...
Yeah over winter it covers the grass, then, come summer the grass grows over it...
Tried moss killer, but I have about an acre of grass and it's always back over winter...
As long as it's short and green..I don't care.....;-)
The Troll? Bloody cheek. Everyone knows you and your personna Think are the Trolls! And, if you don't know what I am talking about it clearly shows you are outside the UK. Dunoon indeed. BTW, love the photo mock up.
May 22nd, 2016 - 09:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0(76) Mr. Voice
May 22nd, 2016 - 09:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Just an observation about that old & invincible “foe”, the mighty moss...
Changed to wild flower lawns with paths mown through long ago...
Nowadays, I don't even mow them paths anymore...
Pretty, easy and eco-friendly...
lt seems the 2(or is it just 1?)RG loving trolls have hijacked the thread & have turned it into a gardening fest.
May 22nd, 2016 - 09:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Enough already about lawns & moss, you pair(pair?).
Think, isn't it time to water your turnip patch?
And stop being so disgusting.
Reminds me, l'll have to make another windbreak for my roses.
http://en.mercopress.com/2016/05/17/cameron-stands-by-his-criticism-of-trump-stupid-divisive-and-wrong#comment440995: I do remember the Viet Nam War. And my memories, unlike yours, are first person.
May 23rd, 2016 - 02:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0There was no way that the US wanted the UK in Viet Nam. There were two main reasons why not: British actions in Viet Nam had resulted in a very negative view of them in the country, and; The British were unable to provide any useful military force - they where, in the words of Dean Acheson “past it”.
The fact is that in the 20 years following the end of WWII the British attempted various obfuscations and end runs against and around the promises given in the Atlantic Charter and elsewhere. The US wanted to put the British back in their box - that is to withdraw to Europe and join what was then the European Common Market. So, in order to provide leverage the US made a request to the UK. This policy was successful. The British issued the 'East of Suez' (I.E. the withdrawal from) paper and joined the ECM.
If I am American? So, who's claiming that I am American. Certainly not I. Presumably you are making this claim for your own purposes.
There has been a program in the US - the name of which presently escapes me - which has been examining the ethnicity of various famous Americans. It turns out that the US population is some amalgam of German, Irish, African, Middle Eastern, Polish or Russian, Asian, Native American and Latino - with many others thrown in. I have only watched a few of these episodes but I found them very interesting. However, I find your request for information on my ethnicity creepy. But then you British are a very creepy people so I should not be surprised. If I am, as you propose, American then my answer is, as above, German, Irish, ... I can tell you that I am originally from a plain city on the banks of a plain river in a plain county. I am a plain person and that is all you need to know.
Who cares!
May 23rd, 2016 - 09:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0#80
May 23rd, 2016 - 09:20 am - Link - Report abuse 0It seems that I was wrong. The UK DID have a part in the Vietnam war
See these web sites. So your first paragraph is baloney.
“in the words of Dean Acheson “past it”. It seems that Kennedy disagreed .
.nam.ac.uk/whats-on/lunchtime-lectures/video-archive/jungle-too-far-britain-vietnam-war
.historytoday.com/marc-tiley/britain-vietnam-and-special-relationship
”So, who's claiming that I am American.“
YOU ARE. In previous posts you have as good as stated that.
You find a request for your ethnicity creepy. You find the British ”creepy”
I think it is fair to say that the bulk of the people on this forum find YOU creepy in the extreme.
You do realise that your ethnicity does matter when giving opinions-not facts.
If you were Argentinian and purporting to speak for the USA then I would dismiss this as biased. If you were a citizen of the USA then I would give more credence to your opinions -but not that you spoke for the whole of the USA.
Similarly, I agree with some British posters and disagree with others.
I have stated that I am Scottish/British so you can judge any prejudices that I may exhibit. I cannot see any problem declaring your background.
Not to do so smacks of cowardice or wishing to hide your own prejudices and pretending that you are a world citizen only dealing with facts. RUBBISH !
It also speaks volumes about your attitude that you don't mention any ethnic input to the USA from Britain....willful omission or just plain creepy hatred.
You do realise that in 1770's it was people mainly from British stock that founded the USA. The Germans also had a large contribution. The Scots/Irish were the main instigators of the western pioneering movement. The Irish, Italians,Poles and east Europeans did not arrive in any force until about the 1840's to the turn of the century. The Afro Americans have a history much longer than these groups.
@80 Ever been to Plymouth Rock? Ever been to Jamestown? Ever been to Williamsburg? Ever noticed literally hundreds maybe thousands of English place names in the North East of the US? Why is that?
May 23rd, 2016 - 09:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0Racist twat!
(79) Isolde, my Reine Victoria Rose....
May 23rd, 2016 - 10:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0Roses...!!!
Ìn Malvinas...???
A foreign, invasive species...!!!
What will our well biosecurity officers say about that...???
By the way...
What's wrong or disgusting about lawns and gardening...???
This is a British site..., after all...!!!
Chuckle chuckle...
Think, you are a reprobate.
May 23rd, 2016 - 12:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0An old, probably past it roué.
You can be awfully smutty when you want to be, but maybe you were fun when you were younger.
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Hepatia,
More deflections from you.
You are also a liar.
The US almost begged the UK to take part in that immoral war in Vietnam.
ONE of the reasons for our refusal was in retaliation for lack of American support for the Suez fiasco in 1956.
ln fact, the US gave moral support to the Egyptians.
You also have posted plenty about the USA & used the word “we”, implying that you are American.
So now you admit it, you are not American.
Clyde15 is correct, you are a liar.
As Clyde say, in your line up of the nations that contributed to the American population, you have omitted the British.
The British formed the vast majority of the USA's original population & whether you like it or not America is more British than you think.
What language do Americans speak, Hepatia?
What weights & measures do they use, Hepatia?
Where does America's laws come from Hepatia?
Why even some American Army bugle calls are the same as the British Army.
l know that you plainly hate us & are plainly not a very nice person & you do tell lies.
immaterial, but l still think that you are a butthurt Argentine.
(85) Isolde, me Princess Anne Rose...
May 23rd, 2016 - 01:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Awfully smutty old reprobate”... just for disliking moss in me lawn?
Geeeeeeeeeeeeee lass....... You sound like an awfully priggish young prude...
Creep.. Are you related to Saville?
May 23rd, 2016 - 01:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Fact one=Britain had nothing to do with Vietnam,
May 23rd, 2016 - 06:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Fact two= 80 Hepatia will be returned to Vietnam in the next 24 years
to give his evidence that Britain was involved.
#80
May 24th, 2016 - 06:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Your scholarship is z-.
Out of curiosity, I did some research on ethnicity and discovered that 34 out of the 44 US Presidents had British/Irish surnames.
In the American Civil War ,on BOTH sides, the vast majority of the Senior Officers up to Generals had British /Irish surnames. Eg. Robert E Lee , Ulysses Simpson Grant, Jeb Stuart, McClellan, Sherman, Johnstone, Harrison, Scott and Stonewall Jackson..
Is it not strange that you could find NO trace of the British in your “research” into the ethnic background of the USA. Have you never heard of “New England”
or Virginia. How did they acquire their names ? By a lucky dip ?
If this is an example of American scholarship, God help AMERICA..but again, you now deny being American....or do you ?
He aint American, north central or south,
May 24th, 2016 - 07:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0he is probable an escaped lunatic from Siberia .
@89 Clyde15,
May 24th, 2016 - 09:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0l saw an article somewhere that stated that ALL US Presidents except one, Martin Van Burran(think l got his name right)are related to Queen Elizabeth.
This includes Obama, through his mother.
Distantly, but still related.
Also read that George Washington's ancestors were called de Wallsingham & came originally from Northamptonshire.
The article showed the family shield & it was a line of white stars on a blue band across the top & vertical red & white stripes underneath.
ls there nothing new under the sun?
l suppose the article was correct, but haven't checked yet.
l think that Hepatia is an anti-British butthurt Argentine, who WAS trying to masquerade as an American & trying to get us to make anti-American remarks.
Why she has decided to come out of the closet, l have no idea.
Regards, I
http://en.mercopress.com/2016/05/17/cameron-stands-by-his-criticism-of-trump-stupid-divisive-and-wrong#comment441226: As I said my memories of the Viet Nam War are first person. I was aware of the British playing around the edges at the time. But so where the French and others. Do you have a point?
May 25th, 2016 - 02:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0In which posts do I claim to be an American or any other nationality?
How you assign credibility to posts or persona is a matter for you alone. It needs no input from me. However, if you use a persona's nationality as the basis of this assignment, then my advice to you is to, in my case, assign a nationality to me and rank my credibility accordingly.
The nationalities I mentioned are from my memories of a few episodes seen some time ago. I don't remember any mention of English ethnicity. I did mention Scottish and Irish ethnicity so I did in fact mention the British. But, looking back at the list, I see I've missed the Italians. I don't remember if they were mentioned in the episodes but Italian immigration to the US far exceeds that of the English. Fortunately the Italians are not so insecure that they require constant recognition of their existence by me in order to maintain their sense of self worth.
Getting back to Viet Nam there were two reasons why the US did not want to have the UK in that war. First was that it was the UK that brought the French back after WWII. This was a problem not only for the DRV but also the GVN. Incidentally I remember speaking to a man who was in the US Navy during WWII. He told me that there was a lot of disquiet in the US military while this was occurring. They didn't like the idea that so many Americans had died in order to allow the Europeans to recolonize.
The second reason was that the UK had no real capability to project power in the region. Had they been in Viet Nam they would have been a drain on the US logistics and transportation systems. And memories of WWII performance did not recommend UK troops to the US.
TWIMC
May 25th, 2016 - 06:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0Just a quick look into USA's current “not so Anglo” demography...:
Hispanic Americans...: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans
~56,000,000
German Americans...:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans
~51,000,000
African Americans...:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans
~42,000,000
Paddy Americans...:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans
~35,000,000
Pom Americans...: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans
~ 28,000,000
Jock Americans...: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans
~25,000,000
Italian Americans...:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans
~18,000,000
Slavic Americans...:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans
~18,000,000
Asian Americans...:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans
~15,000,000
French Americans...:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans
~12,000,000
Scandinavian Americans...:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans
~11.000.000
Polish Americans...:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans
~10,000,000
@89 Clyde15,
May 25th, 2016 - 09:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0l think that we can safely wipe Hepatia from the list of unbiased, fair minded debating opponents.
lt will never acknowledge our part in anything at all, except the nasty things.
Too riddled with hate to have any meaningful dialogue with.
l am proud of my heritage & the things accomplished by my countrymen to be cowed by the bile that Hepatia spews forth.
And, gasp, she even lies.
Think jumping on the band wagon again, l see.
What about Russian Americans, Think?
Don't we get a mention?
2 Russian Americans designed the famous P47 Republic Thunderbolt.
Hepatia
May 25th, 2016 - 12:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Goodnight, sleep well.
(94) Isolde, my wild, uncultured rose...
May 25th, 2016 - 12:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Just for your kind info...
The Russian people are mostly “Slavs”... a “Slavic” People...
As you can read in my above post, I have mentioned all 18,000,000 American Slavs...
#92
May 25th, 2016 - 06:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Your quote at #92
“It turns out that the US population is some amalgam of German, Irish, African, Middle Eastern, Polish or Russian, Asian, Native American and Latino - ”
You say:- don't remember any mention of English ethnicity. I did mention Scottish and Irish ethnicity so I did in fact mention the British.
Where did you mention Scottish and by default British?
Making up porkie pies again ?
As to where did you say you were American. In discussing “American attitudes to the UK” you have used the first person pronoun -WE -several times. This means that you are claiming American citizenship.
I spoke to a service man. Good for you so it must be true if it fell in with your anti British stand.
So the USA fought both the Germans and Japanese to prevent the UK re establishing their colonies.
All the time I thought that they had declared war on the Japanese because of the attack on Pearl Harbour and the Philippines. I must have got that wrong !
I did not realise that they were being sacrificed to enable “European powers to re establish colonialism. I thought that in the Far East, it was to maintain US hegemony. However, I am not getting into a slagging match about US/British relations which is what you are hoping to achieve.
Are you perchance a Historian ? Your posts are full of nuanced expressions such as someone told me, the British were a burden in WW2 were ineffective and did not pull their weight etc, etc.
As a vindictive Troll you have nothing to say that commands any sort of respect.
Pom Americans...: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Americans..
No such terminology...Poms refer to Australia.
” In the 1980 United States Census, over 49 million (49,598,035) Americans claimed English ancestry, at the time around 26.34% of the total population and largest reported group which, even today, would make them the largest ethnic group in the United States.[11][12]
From the Wiki. ref. selective, aren't you !
Cameron is now in japan,
May 25th, 2016 - 07:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0and acting a right AH-SO.
Think,
May 26th, 2016 - 11:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0You gave the Poles their own classification & didn't include them with the other Slavic peoples.
l call that discrimination & DEMAND(favourite Argentine word)that you create a separate classification for Belorussian Americans.
And l am NOT yours, viejo.
(99) Isolde, my dear invasive sweetbriar rose.....
May 26th, 2016 - 12:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Sorry..., but White Russians are to small a category to be included my list...
Yours truly
EL Think
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