Trump...

[macdoesit]

You display a deplorable insularity...not unusual.

Yip, I'm one of the deplorables.

 

[Craiglxviii]

Yip, I'm one of the deplorables.

 

[keefysher]

Yip, I'm one of the deplorables.

Is that the same as a redneck?

 

[Craiglxviii]

Is that the same as a redneck?

It's what The Braying She-Ass termed those not on her Christmas card list

 

[Naraic]

Everyone laughed when Trump put himself up for President. Then they laughed when he became President.
I don't see anyone laughing now.

Au contraire...the whole world is laughing, uneasily, but still, laughing.

 

[Naraic]

Native americans are Indians.

Of course they are...well those that are left after you kicked out the Brits and then annihilated the Natives.

 

[davemercedes]

Of course they are...well those that are left after you kicked out the Brits and then annihilated the Natives.

Fair do's though - in those days we were all at it - we did the same to the locals all over our empire. Our ships used to dock in beautiful far away places and embrace the natives, then enslave them. We taught them English by shouting at them and imposed our laws. If we had any trouble we just sent a gunboat and hung a few and then peace (relative, peace anyway) reigned again.
- And the sun never went out on Queen Victoria's empire.

Around 1956 a Tory health minister called Enoch Powell invited West Indian nurses to come and work in Britain.
- As long ago as that, NHS were unable to maintain adequate staff levels!

 

[Craiglxviii]

Fair do's though - in those days we were all at it - we did the same to the locals all over our empire. Our ships used to dock in beautiful far away places and embrace the natives, then enslave them. We taught them English by shouting at them and imposed our laws. If we had any trouble we just sent a gunboat and hung a few and then peace (relative, peace anyway) reigned again.
- And the sun never went out on Queen Victoria's empire.

Around 1956 a Tory health minister called Enoch Powell invited West Indian nurses to come and work in Britain.
- As long ago as that, NHS were unable to maintain adequate staff levels!

Don't forget Umboto Gorge either.

 

[davemercedes]

Don't forget Umboto Gorge either.

Thank you, Lord Edmund!

 

[Craiglxviii]

Thank you, Lord Edmund!

Those slices of guava were viciously sharp...

 

[macdoesit]

Of course they are...well those that are left after you kicked out the Brits and then annihilated the Natives.

Honestly, I did not kick out anyone nor did I annihilate anyone.

 

[Naraic]

Honestly, I did not kick out anyone nor did I annihilate anyone.

Nor, I presume, did you come to Europe during ww2?

 

[macdoesit]

Nor, I presume, did you come to Europe during ww2?

Nor was I on the planet Earth at that time.

 

[keefysher]

Nor was I on the planet Earth at that time.

Are you a spaceman? Or Dr Who?

 

[Craiglxviii]

Are you a spaceman? Or Dr Who?

Dr. Whom?

 

[Naraic]

There are no votes in Puerto Rico...just sayin'.

Now, someone, defend the cretin.

 

[Naraic]

On another front, the car ramming in Charlottesville. I've just watched a video of it. One can see a car being surrounded by a mob carrying pick helves. The car backs hard into one group, then accelerates into another group, then speeds away. I've also just read that the driver of the car was an ex-armoured truck driver; that fits as his behavior shows clear defensive driving. So, what happens when a car is surrounded by an angry armed mob intent on destruction and stops moving? Usually, the car gets tipped then set alight... I certainly wouldn't hang around in that situation and if someone tried to stop me, well you'd be daft arguing with a moving two ton of Sindelfingen.

What, you didn't see the video where he drove at speed down the street to the "mob" before banging into them a couple of times?Would you not have surrounded a car which had just bumped into a few of your friends? You surprise me Craig.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...upremacist-rally-charlottesville-video-report

 

[Craiglxviii]

What, you didn't see the video where he drove at speed down the street to the "mob" before banging into them a couple of times?Would you not have surrounded a car which had just bumped into a few of your friends? You surprise me Craig.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...upremacist-rally-charlottesville-video-report

No, the video I had seen at the time was about 15 seconds long and showed a guy trying to get his car out of a mob.

In context...

An armed mob which had been attacking his comrades with pick helves...

 

[triumphstag]

Don't forget Umboto Gorge either.

That really was a really sharp mango though.

 

[triumphstag]

Actually can anyone else hear a banjo being played?