Perusing the DT, on the killings in Tunisia....(and teh fate of the EU, ref: Greece etc,) this gem emerged...
"After these events, I hope this year?s health-and-beauty buzz phrase ?beach body? will be quietly dropped. "
In another article, David Cameron preaches intolerance of intolerance.
You might almost think the DT and teh Tory party has taken on UKIPS agenda. Whilst being firmly dismissive of UKIP, of course....;-)
Has reporting become a lost art though. I notice from many papers that there is a reliance on eye witnesses and mobile phone pictures etc, and a lackof actual people on the ground who can actually investigate, not just interview people with very set views. Brian
Brit sells to the world weaponry which is intended to kill people and / or destroy property.
Surely we should be rejoicing that the market for western-world arms is alive, in this case?
Or, perhaps, we should retreat immediately from international arms sales?
Oh get you, cynic..
Actually the arm of choice is the AK47, designed by a Russian to be capable of being fired single handedly, even by a complete idiot, even when covered in mud or sand, and made IIRC in Czechoslovakia.
It is however a straw man. was merely pointing out the volte face being performed by political leaders who have WON an election, compared with their stance BEFORE winning it.
My own brand of cynicism.
Pacifism is not cynicism
Oh? Was that pacifism in action?
No, pacifism is not cynicism, its more delusion than anything else.
Indeed, but I suspect that we will see flying pigs before that day comes.
Similarly with the USA, Israel, Russia etc, they make so much money out of it. I used to work for a defence company, and certainly what we made was for defence, but if you set the devices up around an airfield you could shoot anybody's planes down with them. Maybe the cynic in me suspects the ultimate way out of all of this is Nuke the lot of them, but warn me first so i can dig a really big hole to hide in. Brian
Given the one fact we can be sure of is that IS ain't pacifists, I take it you approve of them?
It would not make the slightest difference, except to our balance of payments. It is estimated that around one assault rifle in every five in the world is a Kalashnikov of some sort and those are so simple to make that it is done in back room workshops in Pakistan.
... and to our hypocrisy?
pragmatism is not hypocrisy.
Oh please! Stop breathing, your existence is resulting in the death of many forms of life.
TIA
How childish you are. .
I'm not the one who thinks that we can live care bear land.
Richard, and the rest of uk.d-i-y, be aware that Gareth Alun Evans is a well-known and persistent Usenet troublemaker. He's recently been runned off from his "home" group, uk.radio.amateur, and is looking for new pastures to sow his brand of mayhem in. He's best avoided, preferably by killfile, as he thrives on the attention his trolling brings. Worse, he has a track record for taking Usenet grudges offline by way of poison pen letters to people's employers, an action that he has been prosecuted and convicted for.
Just giving you all the heads up as he's already taking here the usual antagonistic steps he uses to incite a row.
Thanks for that.
No problem. There's a galaxy of archived lunacy from him on Google Groups, primarily in ukra but he's caused havoc all over going back to the 90s, if you ever wanted to familiarise yourself with his usual antics.
How accurate he was.
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Untrue. You spent many months accusing me of sexual relations with sheep, and when I stood up agaisnt you, you demonstrated, as you do now, that hell hath no fury like a stephenthomascole scorned.
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Those who react to the above calumny would be better advised to research STC's grossly offensive remarks since he first appeared in the Usenet NG uk.radio.amateur, in particular, his infantile outbursts over the past couple of days since he re-appeared there after an absence of a couple of weeks.
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