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HappyTree
15-04-2013
Adapted for home use.
Charlie Drake
15-04-2013
Originally Posted by TomWhitton:
“I see this becoming a catchphrase.”

'General Galtieri knew my father, father knew General Galtieri...'

(To the tune of 'Lloyd George etc.')
makeba72
15-04-2013
Originally Posted by guiser:
“They might have had a mortgage before they took the job.

Perhaps they were one of the 100,000+ retail workers who lost their jobs since 2010.

Now they're just scroungers leeching off the rest of us aren't they?”

Indeed - good point
makeba72
15-04-2013
Originally Posted by HappyTree:
“Well you try telling that to General Galtieri!”

Do you mind? Some of my best friends are dictators.
makeba72
15-04-2013
Sudden swerve of topic as bombs explode at the end of the Boston marathon.

2 dead, 22 injured. Concerns for London marathon. 2 unexploded devices found and dismantled (unverified)
chinchin
15-04-2013
Originally Posted by makeba72:
“Sudden swerve of topic as bombs explode at the end of the Boston marathon.

2 dead, 22 injured. Concerns for London marathon. 2 unexploded devices found and dismantled (unverified)”

Thank god more lives have not been lost, but one is too many.
makeba72
15-04-2013
Originally Posted by chinchin:
“Thank god more lives have not been lost, but one is too many. ”

Indeed.

A third device appears to have exploded at a library, too.
chinchin
16-04-2013
Originally Posted by makeba72:
“Indeed.

A third device appears to have exploded at a library, too.”

I think that was just an electrical fault. Looks like it may be a home grown terrorist this time.

So with LBC covering the funeral tomorrow is everyone listening or watching the coverage? I won't be!
MartinRosen
16-04-2013
Originally Posted by chinchin:
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So with LBC covering the funeral tomorrow is everyone listening or watching the coverage? I won't be!”

Unfortunately I have to take an elderly guy for a hospital appointment tomorrow. Hopefully while I am waiting for him, I can listen to Nick on my phone.
chinchin
16-04-2013
Originally Posted by MartinRosen:
“Unfortunately I have to take an elderly guy for a hospital appointment tomorrow. Hopefully while I am waiting for him, I can listen to Nick on my phone.”

Are you able to record it on your TV to watch later? I'll bet it's expensive to listen to on your phone.
MartinRosen
16-04-2013
Originally Posted by chinchin:
“Are you able to record it on your TV to watch later? I'll bet it's expensive to listen to on your phone.”

I could do that, but I already have a number of programmes to catch up on.

My phone (it is very basic, it makes phone calls / text messages), but also has a FM radio on it. Therefore it costs nothing other than battery power!
orangeballoon
16-04-2013
potentially expensive to listen via an app that streams radio via 3 or 4 g... not so if its via wifi and the phone is linked to a free system (like orange customers with orange wifi via bt hotspots, bt customers via their app, sky customers via their cloud network etc)....

and some phones still have fm radios built in!
MartinRosen
16-04-2013
Originally Posted by orangeballoon:
“and some phones still have fm radios built in!”

Obviously a cheaper option then!
chinchin
16-04-2013
Originally Posted by MartinRosen:
“I could do that, but I already have a number of programmes to catch up on.

My phone (it is very basic, it makes phone calls / text messages), but also has a FM radio on it. Therefore it costs nothing other than battery power!”

Good luck. I shall be wearing red and may play a ding dong or two out of the window.
chinchin
17-04-2013
Originally Posted by PrimarchofMars:
“Boris thinks being a 'nasty piece of work' is a badge of honour? Interesting. I don't call the things he did to get that epithet particularly honourable.”

Well said.
HappyTree
17-04-2013
Not watched or listened to anything Thatchery today. But I did read this which sounds quite accurate:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...ut-thatcherism

As someone commented on Radio 5 Live today (acc. to twitter): "Thatcher was despised in parts of the country that don't matter." Says it all, really.
MartinRosen
17-04-2013
Originally Posted by HappyTree:
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As someone commented on Radio 5 Live today (acc. to twitter): "Thatcher was despised in parts of the country that don't matter." Says it all, really.”

Every Prime Minister (save Churchill) was probably despised in parts of the country.

We know that the previous Government approved the arrangements for today. So would anything different have happened if she had died when Mr Blair or Mr Brown were in power?
Venetian
17-04-2013
Originally Posted by MartinRosen:
“Every Prime Minister (save Churchill) was probably despised in parts of the country.

We know that the previous Government approved the arrangements for today. So would anything different have happened if she had died when Mr Blair or Mr Brown were in power?”

Probably not Martin.

Churchill was not despised after the war but never forget the people voted him out immediately after the conclusion of WW2. So many remembered the abject poverty existing in parts of the country prior to the war, and yes, Churchill wasn't PM at that time, but was he genuinely revered then?
chinchin
17-04-2013
Originally Posted by HappyTree:
“Not watched or listened to anything Thatchery today. But I did read this which sounds quite accurate:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...ut-thatcherism

As someone commented on Radio 5 Live today (acc. to twitter): "Thatcher was despised in parts of the country that don't matter." Says it all, really.”

I have news. She was despised in the South East also!
susie-4964
17-04-2013
Originally Posted by Venetian:
“Probably not Martin.

Churchill was not despised after the war but never forget the people voted him out immediately after the conclusion of WW2. So many remembered the abject poverty existing in parts of the country prior to the war, and yes, Churchill wasn't PM at that time, but was he genuinely revered then?”

No, he wasn't, and he wouldn't have been if WWII hadn't come along. Same with Wellington, who was a superb military leader, but failed miserably in politics in peacetime. Military leadership is not compatible with success in politics, because to be a good military leader, you have to make a decision and live by it - you can't afford to sit there considering all the implications or nothing would get done.

By that reasoning, Churchill and Thatcher were both superb military leaders, but neither was good in peacetime, because they couldn't adapt to the completely different decision process that's necessary for everyday life. Blair tried to emulate them, but he lacked both their insight and their common touch.
chinchin
17-04-2013
The chimes of Big Ben:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmPU8jZBduY
The_Sleeper
17-04-2013
Originally Posted by chinchin:
“The chimes of Big Ben:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmPU8jZBduY”

Your two minutes early chin!
chinchin
17-04-2013
Originally Posted by The_Sleeper:
“Your two minutes early chin! ”

Knickers! (red ones)

http://www.yfronts.net/ebay/briefs/IMG_1071.JPG
chinchin
17-04-2013
London streets are empty. By all accounts.
MartinRosen
17-04-2013
Originally Posted by chinchin:
“London streets are empty. By all accounts.”

Preumably everybody was inside watching the funeral service on television.
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