Things Noticeable this week

[palo5]

Originally Posted by scoundrel

This must be why the heads of the French and of the German intelligence services issued a joint statement with the head of Britain's MI6 this week stressing the importance of continued mutual cooperation.

But of course they did, my friend. Co-operation is always good

But "EU Eyes Only" means exactly that, so it won't be the same as before

[trailmaster]

Originally Posted by otokonomidori

I thought there had already been one.

Maybe I should have made myself clearer. Yes we dropped two atom bombs on Japan, but they did not reciprocate because the U.S. was the only country that had them. No one else had nuclear weapons until 1949(Russia).

[palo5]

Originally Posted by trailmaster

No one else had nuclear weapons until 1949 (Russia).

Actually it was USSR

[chris chunt]

Bit of a brew ha ha developing over a column in the daily mail written by Richard Littlejohn about Tom Daley and his husband Dustin Gee expecting a baby and showing a scan of it .

I read the article and don't think it was homophobic at all in fact a lot of it was making fun of all future parents of whatever sex showing scans of babies .
Like we need to know about it .

This is another case of guardian readers ( the paper that makes a 20 mill a year loss ) deciding what other people can read or look at .

Good luck Richard and long may your column continue .

[trailmaster]

Originally Posted by palo5

Actually it was USSR

Sometimes palo5, speaking with you can be so infuriating!. When anyone talks about people who used to live in the USSR they did not refer to them as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republicans, they just said Russians. same with the U.S. We are not called the United Statesians, we're just Americans. Same with the U.K. They are not called the United Kingdomians, just Englishmen, Welshmen, Scotsmen or North Irishmen!

[palo5]

Originally Posted by trailmaster

When anyone talks about people who used to live in the USSR they did not refer to them as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republicans, they just said Russians

I understand. Comrade. But we do it on purpose, and you do it because you don't know any better

[Greenman]

For,the sake of foreign readers the late comedian Dustin Gee pictured above was part of a double act with British actor and impressionist Les Dennis -they were especially known for their impersonations of two well-loved characters Vera & Mavis from soap Coronation Street. Tom Daley is married to Dustin Lance Black just to clarify. Richard Littlejohn is right to question the woman in all this because in this country it is illegal for women to be surrogate mothers to bear children for what is really just buying a family. Sir Elton and Lady David John looked abroad for theirs too.

[chris chunt]

I'll just call him mannequin face in future to save confusion .

[DTravel]

Originally Posted by rupertramjet

Err US Naval Base Holy Loch Scotland, think they have one or two Tridents.

Which are neither land based nor delivered by aircraft. So there, Mr. Nitpicky!

[Roubignol]

Originally Posted by rupertramjet

As for an end to Wars, sorry it is not human nature to live in peace!

In my point of view, that's sadly a wrong assertion. You can't compare human nature and human society.
That's not because a small group of people wants to fight that all their collectivity wants to fight.

A minority of brutal people have created rules to push the majority of the peaceful or fearful ones to die for them on battlefields. If a man doesn't want to fight, he has to face a tribunal, to go to jail and in some cases to be executed by the brutal representants of his nation.

How many recent wars would have not happened, if people could have decided if they wanted or not to participate through a referendum? Probably none.

Recently if USA, UK or France would have been real democracies, they would never have sent their young soldiers to the Middle East or Northern Africa. People, who decided to go to war, were senators, lords or presidents sleeping in satin sheets.