Re: US Presidential election 2020 : Thu Jun 11, 2020 6:08 pm  

It was also the Barnsley reserve team they played against. No mantelpiece clock was safe.

Re: US Presidential election 2020 : Thu Jun 11, 2020 6:59 pm  

Mild Rover wrote:

Tinned milk! The ice-cream - neopolitan or raspberry ripple? Doesn’t matter, haven’t got them in and and one of the few things greater than my suggestibility is my aversion to non-essential shopping.

Well, as it is almost the weekend, go all out and have rum and raisin, pineapple and rum is a great combination (I would say wash it down with a Malibu and Lilt, but then I'd have all the statues of me taken down in years to come... )

Re: US Presidential election 2020 : Fri Jun 12, 2020 7:22 pm  

Far be it from me to question the intelligence of the far right but do they not get the irony that they are going to London to protect a statue of the man who was part of the group of allies responsible for defeating those they hope to emulate. I suppose any reason for a demonstration and civil unrest.

Re: US Presidential election 2020 : Fri Jun 12, 2020 7:37 pm  

Scarlet Pimpernell wrote:

Far be it from me to question the intelligence of the far right but do they not get the irony that they are going to London to protect a statue of the man who was part of the group of allies responsible for defeating those they hope to emulate. I suppose any reason for a demonstration and civil unrest.

I think the problem is that isn't the far right, it is a lot of fairly 'run of the mill' people who have had enough of millenials and snowflakes, the extremes on both ends of the spectrum are as abhorrent as each other, the big problem is the idiots waving placards because they are bored, if Covid wasn't around they would all be too busy on SnapChat, Instagram, Tik Tok to even care.

If people dislike the UK, our history and our background they can leave, born here, white, black, yellow, green, orange, fuschia, polkadots, strped, star spangled, whatever... the door is THAT WAY》》》》》》》》》》》

People will only put up with (self) righteous indignation for so long. When theMayor of London tells people to stay away and insults the very fabric of a nation, people will exercise the same right to protest as has been afforded the BLM protesters. This isn't about left or right wing, it is about common sense.

Re: US Presidential election 2020 : Fri Jun 12, 2020 7:48 pm  

Scarlet Pimpernell wrote:

Far be it from me to question the intelligence of the far right but do they not get the irony that they are going to London to protect a statue of the man who was part of the group of allies responsible for defeating those they hope to emulate. I suppose any reason for a demonstration and civil unrest.

You've bought into the media and Sadiq Khan narrative there.

*Some* hard right groups will make an appearance, that's for sure. But there are Veterans groups and ordinary people rallying to stand against the feral rats we've seen running riot over the last week, seeing as the police have been pathetic. Watching as authorities across the board and the police kneel literally and figuratively to a violent extremist group with a minority view, and watching them seek to erase pretty much all of British history through violence, intimidation and coercion because 'racism' has got the quiet majority seething.

At least one Vets group has complained to GMB after being labelled 'hard right'.

Saying that, you do realise anyone not sucking up to BLM is now hard right. I'm hard right. My family are hard right. My friends are all hard right. My Bangladeshi mate at work is hard right, and so is his wife. All of my friends are hard right, including those 'of colour'. Probably a few lefties on here are now hard right. Ain't that a kicker.

Re: US Presidential election 2020 : Fri Jun 12, 2020 9:05 pm  

Amazing how venomously angry some people get about some things yet they laughably call other people snowflakes, as if they don't really know what the term is supposed to mean.

Once again the levels of projection are fascinating.

[Mild Rover]

Re: US Presidential election 2020 : Fri Jun 12, 2020 9:20 pm  

You can’t beat a good seethe.

Re: US Presidential election 2020 : Fri Jun 12, 2020 9:32 pm  

Mild Rover wrote:

You can’t beat a good seethe.

Nope, but you can beat a BLM rioter.

Funny times. The SNP bent over to BLM and even tacitly approved of the attacks on the Churchill monument.

BLM have today defiled the Robert the Bruce monument with 'racist king...black lives matter'. I can almost smell the confusion coming from Holyrood.

Re: US Presidential election 2020 : Fri Jun 12, 2020 9:35 pm  

Scarlet Pimpernell wrote:

Far be it from me to question the intelligence of the far right but do they not get the irony that they are going to London to protect a statue of the man who was part of the group of allies responsible for defeating those they hope to emulate. I suppose any reason for a demonstration and civil unrest.

Quite right. You just summed up 99% of the BLM
Movement in one post. Why aren’t they protesting against gravity seeing as though Newton was a nazi?

Re: US Presidential election 2020 : Fri Jun 12, 2020 9:36 pm  

Cronus wrote:

Nope, but you can beat a BLM rioter.

Funny times. The SNP bent over to BLM and even tacitly approved of the attacks on the Churchill monument.

BLM have today defiled the Robert the Bruce monument with 'racist king...black lives matter'. I can almost smell the confusion coming from Holyrood.

The sad thing is, the individuals that resort to violence, looting and vandalism probably don't give a tinkers cuss about BLM at all.