snafuRicher! A heinous crime!
Not like the rest of us, we only live on bread-and-water and give away all our surplus money to the poor…
…now should you get that new iPhone 7, or fund ten eye operations for blind orphans in India? :rolleyes:
He is already rich. Getting a couple of million for his memoires and a hundred thou or two for chats and a quick Q’n’A…?
What, and replace my six year old Samsung?
Thank you for explaining who All Murray is.
If you cannot read the guys name twice, when it is correctly on the screen in front of you what hope do we have that you get other, more difficult facts and figures correct?
A gun to protect your miserable skin unless you were a sperm in the 70’s
Wait, are you saying you are…Beermats daddy? Love ’em and leave ’em, eh?;o)
What a disappointment he must be to you. You surely were hoping your offspring would turn out to be Nigel Farage Gump or the obergruppenführer for the BNP.
Several million sperm and he was the one who succeeded, unless all your sperm were failures to you as well?
snafuIndeed film was used extensively in WWI – the camera operator was doomed to have almost as short a life expectancy as a newly arrived fighter pilot on the Western Front. But even then they were not adverse to filming one thing and making claims that it displayed something else when used to fill the gap between Charlie Chaplin movies…
The idea that because everyone has the means to film their own videos puts me in mind of the old saying about how many monkeys sitting at keyboards for how many years it would take to write out a bit of Shakespeare – just because you can make a video doesn’t mean you should, and if you do then don’t expect that it will be fantastic and that you are now able to put across your points clearly and concisely because it is patently obvious that there is a genuinely brilliant reason that professionals get paid and amateurs don’t.
It is surely easier to debate with others when there is either a fully typed out diatribe, a copy and paste from somewhere else with an explanation and a referenced link to the original, or even just the link rather than a video which you may have to endure watching time and time again just to catch certain words or the gist of the argument. Especially if the video is of nothing but some loon laughing.
Of course, if you have a transcript of the video that would be great; it used to be the case that film companies had to supply a transcript as well as a copy of their new film to be submitted before the British Board of Film Classification, so that they could translate every mumble on screen to make sure that no naughty words could slip through…
snafuDon’t play the innocent. It doesn’t suit you.
Do you or do you not believe that Jonesy is acting under the influence of ‘exotic substances’?
I may have invited people to add a bit more water to their tipple of choice but I have never implied, for example, that you are out of your gourd on crystal meth, MDMA, or that you were a pothead. I would expect Bruce to shut down the thread if I did (if it is still open when I click the reply button…).
Please forget I said anything. Carry on as normal.
snafuShe was grabbed by a sailor, kissed and became a symbol of victory, although she apparently knew nothing about it until the 60s…
Greta Friedman, the woman in white kissed by a sailor in New York’s Times Square in a photograph symbolising the end of the second world war, has died aged 92.
Her son, Joshua Friedman, said she died on Thursday in Virginia after suffering a series of ailments, including pneumonia, NBC News reported.
The last Crow Indian (and possibly of all Indian) war chief, historian and war veteran has gone (whoops, several months ago, but I include this because of his fantastic story!) to meet his sky gods…
Joseph Medicine Crow, the acclaimed Native American historian, second world war veteran and last surviving war chief of Montana’s Crow tribe, has died aged 102.
Medicine Crow, who was raised by his grandparents in a log house in a rural area of the Crow Reservation near Lodge Grass, Montana, wore his war paint beneath his second world war uniform.
As a child, Medicine Crow listened to stories about the Battle of Little Bighorn – the conflict that pitted federal troops led by Lt Col George Armstrong Custer against native Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne warriors. He translated for his great uncle, White Man Runs Him, when white reporters came to interview him about the battle…
…As Crow tradition had it, in order to become a chief a man had to command a war party, enter an enemy camp at night and steal a horse, wrestle a weapon away from his enemy and touch the first enemy fallen, without killing him.
Thousands of miles from where the code was conceived, on the battlefields of Europe, Medicine Crow became the last person to meet the conditions. Wearing a yellow eagle feather tucked inside his helmet, he fought hand-to-hand combat with a German soldier, whose life was spared, and set off a stampede of 50 horses from a Nazi stable, while singing a traditional Crow song as he rode away.
“I never got a scratch,” he recalled about 60 years later.
Fame, downfall, and a peaceful retirement for an advertising star…
A tiger which starred in Esso’s much-loved fuel adverts has died of old age at a Lincolnshire wildlife park.
Tango, one of several big cats to appear in the famous “Tiger in Your Tank” ads in the 1990s, passed away at the weekend, two years after being rescued from a European circus.
Woodside Wildlife Park has received almost 1,000 messages of sympathy on its Facebook page since announcing the death of the 22-year-old animal – thought to be Britain’s oldest tiger.
Park director Neil Mumby said: “A normal age for a tiger to reach would be approximately 15 – so at 22 he was over 100 years old in human terms.
“He had an extremely good innings but he had a mixed life in his circus time on the continent.
“We were happy to give him a good, peaceful retirement for two-and-a-half years – we have seen him chasing butterflies, swimming and behaving like a tiger deserves to.”
Mr Mumby, who orchestrated a £250,000 project to rehome Tango in 2014, added: “From my point of view, we are extremely proud to have given him his retirement.”
Esso first used an image of a tiger in its ads following the end of rationing after the Second World War, and the long-running “Put a Tiger in Your Tank” campaign is regarded as one of the most successful in advertising history.
And an actor from a famous acting family, who changed his sex. I include this as much for their description of her death as her as a memorial to her life, which seems as good a way to go as any…
Actress and activist Alexis Arquette has died at the age of 47.
The transgender star – sibling of actors David, Rosanna and Patricia Arquette – died on Sunday morning.
Her other brother Richmond confirmed the news on Facebook with a press release written by Patricia. He said Arquette died while listening to David Bowie’s music.
Alexis Arquette appeared in films including Pulp Fiction and The Wedding Singer……The statement said that in the days leading to her death, Alexis said “where she was going, there was only one gender”.
It added: “She passed away surrounded by love. We held her and sang her David Bowie’s Starman as she punched through the veil to the other side.”
snafuFireman Sam gets away with it!
Complaints over an episode of Fireman Sam, which seems to show a character treading on a Koran page, will not be investigated by watchdog Ofcom.
The scene shows a fireman slipping on papers and, as they fly up, a page with Arabic script appears to be among them.
Ofcom received 170 complaints but said on Monday it could not confirm the page was from the Koran.
The episode was pulled from Channel 5’s streaming service but was first broadcast on TV in October 2014.
“We studied a recording of the programme in the highest possible resolution,” an Ofcom spokesperson said.
“We found that the page did appear to contain Arabic text, but its contents could not have been deciphered, nor recognised as being from a given text.”
snafuAre you unable to discuss without posting videos?
Do you search for long to find a vid that agrees with your political viewpoint?
Just asking. Certainly not viewing.
snafuYour comments, intellectually limited as they are, seem to be from a mind that hasn’t benefited too well from a diet of exotic substances. Either that, or you inhabit a dreamworld, a never-never land of Make-It-Up-As-You-Go-Along.
Are you implying that because another forum member does not see the world the way you do, does not agree with your views, therefore he must be under the influence of ‘exotic substances’?
That is a bit low, even for you.
The rest of it, as Creaky said (above).
Additionally, does anyone bother to watch the videos posted ad nauseam? I admit that after viewing one – or a minute of one – it was so dull that I have no interest in wasting time watching anymore and regret the days when we could ‘discuss’ in ways that did not involve posting a video reply, only to have another countering the reply.
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snafuAn influence in the late 70s early 80s for certain Mod bands…
Jamaican music legend Prince Buster has died at the age of 78.
He passed away this morning (September 8) at a hospital in South Florida, the Jamaica Observer reports, having been ill for some time following a series of strokes. His death was confirmed by his son, Kareem Ali.
The singer, songwriter and producer – born Cecil Bustamente Campbell – was revered as a pioneer of Jamaican ska and rocksteady music all through the ’60s. After originally being released in 1964, his single ‘Al Capone’ became a hit in the UK three years later.
Prince Buster later became a major influence on the UK’s late-’70s ska revival. Madness’s 1979 single ‘The Prince’ was written in tribute to him and during the same year, the Camden band took a cover of Prince Buster’s song ‘One Step Beyond’ into the UK Top Ten. The Specials also covered and sampled several of Prince Buster’s songs.
snafuAh.
No.
Can’t we have a vote on it?
snafuI don’t remember this!
snafuTrump inadvertently declared himself ineligible to be president!
“Hillary and her top aides told the FBI and others related in the (email) lawsuits that they couldn’t recall or remember — can’t remember anything!” Trump said. “By the way, if she really can’t remember, she can’t be president! She doesn’t remember anything! She doesn’t even remember whether or not she was instructed on how to use emails. ‘Were you instructed on how to use?’ ‘I can’t remember.'”
Why’s that tricky? Because asserting that Clinton can’t be president if she doesn’t remember details in an interview would mean that Trump, too, is ineligible for the nation’s highest office.
As part of The Post’s research for our biography of the Republican nominee, we compiled hundreds of documents from Trump’s past. Among those were a number of depositions from a tiny portion of the thousands of lawsuits to which Trump has been a party over the years. And in those depositions? Constant assertions by Trump that he couldn’t recall or didn’t know the answers to questions offered him.
We can isolate one particular deposition as evidence of this: His Sep. 2012 deposition in a lawsuit regarding Trump University, the real estate training seminar series that has been the subject of fraud allegations and investigations by attorneys general in multiple states.
Over the course of that one interview, Donald Trump says that he doesn’t know the answer to a question hundreds of times. He claims not to recall details related to questions dozens more.
Asked if he attended one of the program’s seminar in Florida, Trump says he did. When? Years ago. What year? Doesn’t remember. Who were the instructors? He didn’t remember. What did they talk about? “I can’t remember specifically.” Was this Trump Institute, the Florida iteration of Trump University? He didn’t know. Did he remember the format of the presentation? He didn’t. Pressed for any detail he remembered, Trump offered one: “The only detail, as I left, I was very impressed.”
That’s from one page of the 600 pages of testimony.
Things he didn’t remember that were related to Trump University:
– When discussions about Trump University began.
– The format the initial courses took.
– The names of any of the courses.
– Seeing the resumes of course instructors.
– Why the licensing agreement for Trump Institute ended.
– If attendees got a degree.
At one point, Trump was asked if he remembered the names of any of the instructors who provided instruction at Trump University — a group that the organization had touted as being hand-picked by Trump. “Can you identify a single person who was a live events instructor for Trump University?” the attorneys for the plaintiff asked Trump. “You’d have to give me a list,” Trump replied.
So they did.
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Page after page, same response. The attorneys tried a different tactic, presenting Trump with photos of people and asking him if they recognized the pictures. He didn’t.
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Hands up all those who believe that he will do the decent and expected thing.
Me neither.
snafuYou might not know her face but she has died, just the same…
A woman who made history by receiving the world’s first partial face transplant has died at the age of 49.
The pioneering treatment given to Isabelle Dinoire 11 years ago, after she was mauled by her pet dog, has enabled dozens of other people to receive the life-changing transplant.
http://metro.co.uk/2016/09/06/the-woman-given-the-worlds-first-face-transplant-has-died-6113231/
snafuExcept that the USSR, despite its name, was not a true socialist state. The clue was in how happy the people weren’t.
snafuI eat chicken only when I know its source. eg. when it comes home to roost.
That or a nice capitalists factory farm, eh?
And don’t forget to count the sauce, too.
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