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  • in reply to: My trip to MAN with my mate. #687868
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    Actually, LBARules, I strongly suspect that they were taken from the inside of T1 – in the seating area near the Food Court.

    Am I right, MANAIRPORTMAD??? 😎

    in reply to: My trip to MAN with my mate. #688054
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    They’re not airside shots, LBARules. There are some splendid vantage points for photography at MAN, and the boy seems to be finding them for himself.

    Nice shots, by the way……… 😀

    It’s the same one 99% of the time, Shamrock, only varying when G-BNWH is broken or undergoing servicing. Something to do with the seating configuration, I understand.

    We do get the occasional “mainline” 767 on the LHR Shuttle, though.

    in reply to: Eggheads for evil #1981096
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    However, what with the more moderate interpretations of “if you don’t like it here, go back to your own country.” This may shock some people, but you can hardly call it racism. That’s what I meant.

    No-one ever seems to say it to white immigrants though, do they? A lot of black and brown people whose parents were born here seem to hear it, as well.

    in reply to: Eggheads for evil #1981183
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    Fascism is a 20th century invention.

    The term itself was coined by Italian extreme right-wingers after WW1 and is an allusion to the fasces – the symbol of bound sticks used a totem of power in Imperial Rome – in a clear attempt to identify their ideology with the former glory of Rome.

    The concept of continuity with these ancient glories is an important part of Fascist mythology and ideology – thus, Italian fascists portrayed themselves as the direct heirs to the Caesars while German fascists pretended to a similar relationship with the “Teutonic Knights” of legend.

    No semantics are involved or necessary in damning Fascists as racists. One of the central planks of fascism is the notion that “decent” – ie, white – people are under threat from an all-pervading external and alien influence.

    There’s always a clearly definable “other” cultural or ethnic group cast in the role of scapegoat and source of all ills. If that isn’t racism, then what is it?

    in reply to: Eggheads for evil #1981210
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    No, MINIDOH. That’s being anti-semitic – although, strictly speaking, those who hate Arabs are also anti-semitic.

    Not having it? Check in any reputable dictionary!

    Fascism, on the other hand, is a system of government marked by the centralization of authority around a dictator or ruling elite , stringent social controls, suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship and (usually) a foreign policy marked by belligerent nationalism and racism.

    In fact, fascism was not racist at all.

    It was, and remains, racist. Hitler, Franco, Mussolini, Moseley and their noxious ilk not racists? Perhaps in an alternate reality!

    in reply to: Left or Right, what's the difference?? #1981857
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    AFAIK these neo-cons were very much inspired by a marxist American thinktank. Is that right?

    “marxist American”? How likely is that???? :rolleyes:

    in reply to: O'Leary insults Poland #692597
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    Well, I’ve been to Gdansk and both Mr O’Leary and SHAMROCK321 are talking through their trousers. 😎

    in reply to: Ex-President Ronald Reagan dies aged 93!! #1982181
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    Hey, I must have been the infamous “enemy within”

    You and me both! 😎

    in reply to: Ahhh…the "Land of the Free" #1982184
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    Sauron, that is pure, Grade A, 100% genuine high-grade bullsh*t!

    Are you clairvoyant or something?

    You weren’t there, you don’t know what happened yet you still try to come across like some all-knowing superior being passing judgement on we mere mortals.

    So how come, guy?

    in reply to: Ex-President Ronald Reagan dies aged 93!! #1982192
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    I meant c-r-a-p actually, but I was being diplomatic.

    in reply to: Ex-President Ronald Reagan dies aged 93!! #1982200
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    The Presidents death gives those who get off on taking issue with everything American an opportunity to vent.

    Someone thinking you’re talking ballcocks doesn’t make them anti-American. 😎

    There’s no denying that the late Mr Reagan played a part in the ending of the Cold War.

    But only a part – it wasn’t something he did single-handedly like some superhero and it diminishes his memory to make such frankly ludicrous claims.

    in reply to: New type at Ringway #694678
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    No, Green320 – my house is right underneath the 24R approach at about 3DME. 😀

    in reply to: New type at Ringway #694825
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    Yes, you did didn’t you? 😀

    in reply to: New type at Ringway #695081
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    …..and it’s down at 21:39. Very nice it looked too!

    Anyone else see it?

    in reply to: Ex-President Ronald Reagan dies aged 93!! #1982233
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    Messrs Walesa, Wojtyla and Gorbachev had a hand in the end of the Cold War as well.

    Ah, but wait! They weren’t Republicans or even Americans, were they?

    Must have been Ronzo all by himself after all then. 😎

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