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The first part of this sentence is accurate.

Cameron and Hague wanted in with the same people who ended up becoming ISIS. If what you say is true, that there were many armed groups and we'd only help or fight alongside the ones we liked, do you mind telling us how the hell that'd work in practice? Would members have to wear name badges, along with something denoting which group they're in? Perhaps they could colour code. All the people that ended up being ISIS that like us could have worn green. All the people that ended up being ISIS that wanted to blow our f**king heads off could have worn red If you'd read Pilger's article, you might also have a different view on Libya. A country with a despot is probably better than one without a functional government, unless that country decides it wants to start flogging oil in a currency other than US dollars. Libya is a clear case, as was Iraq.

Here's someone having a crack. http://www.buzzfeed.com/virginiahughes/why-are-people-seeing-different-colors-in-that-damn-dress

Yeah, the missus was insisting the same this morning. Juvenile Unit #2 and I weren't having any of it

Doing the rounds on the Internet at the moment. Apparently, people see different colours. It's blue and brown for me. Posted in the Lounge as there is a scientific explanation, apparently

A fantastic piece on modern day fascism by the incomparable John Pilger. Excerpt:- The intensity of the smear campaign against Russia and the portrayal of its president as a pantomime villain is unlike anything I have known as a reporter. Robert Parry, one of America's most distinguished investigative journalists, who revealed the Iran-Contra scandal, wrote recently, "No European government, since Adolf Hitler's Germany, has seen fit to dispatch Nazi storm troopers to wage war on a domestic population, but the Kiev regime has and has done so knowingly. Yet across the West's media/political spectrum, there has been a studious effort to cover up this reality even to the point of ignoring facts that have been well established... If you wonder how the world could stumble into world war three - much as it did into world war one a century ago - all you need to do is look at the madness over Ukraine that has proved impervious to facts or reason." http://johnpilger.com/articles/why-the-rise-of-fascism-is-again-the-issue

At the very least, he's picking a píss poor strategy to make his point. He continually claims that no-one knows what they're talking about, but instead of explaining why, his preferred method of debate is finding random knife crime in the UK, as if that matters. I reckon he's about 14.

More news on Neil Blomkamp's Alien film. It's apparently going to be a direct sequel to Aliens. The viewer will be required to forget that Alien 3 and Resurrection existed. Unusual, but not a first. Brian Singer's Superman Returns movie was billed as a continuation of the Richard Donner films, which ended at II (if you're being generous). I don't mind either of the later Alien films, as it goes - but it is definitely true to say that the movies took the wrong direction. There was a Dark Horse comic series released in the late 1980s which has a much better storyline than 3 or Resurrection, featuring Ripley, Newt and Hicks. A lot of it was based on an alien-infested Earth. Weirdly enough, after they made Alien 3, reprints of those comics changed the character names so that they wouldn't clash with (what was then) Alien canon. Time to change them back, I reckon

The traditional definition of a fascist economy is when state and corporate interests collaborate to achieve together what they cannot alone. You could argue that there has been a bit of that since the birth of the military industrial complex, but we've never really had the ideology. We're making up ground on that front.

Or look at Tim's avatar

What would happen if a city slightly bigger than Southampton decided to move to the UK, all at once? I guess we're about to find out, because in 2013 net migration to the UK was 298,000, higher than when the coalition took office. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/26/net-migration-to-uk-higher-than-when-coalition-took-office In 2012, the figure was 176K, 215K in 2011 and 252K in 2010. We don't have 2014's figures yet. I think that they'll be higher on account of Bulgarian and Romanian accession, but assuming a conservative figure of 200K for 2014, the population has jumped by 1.1 million people in the last five years. It's probably more. One would assume that supporting another million or so people would involve infrastructure spending, but one would equally assume we're not doing much of that during austerity. How do we solve this crisis? Go the UKIP way, or start thinking about what sort of country we're likely to be in 50 years, get the cheque book out and start creating infrastructure for now and beyond?

Rickie. Living the dream. http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/dunkin-donuts-gaffe-liverpools-tacky-5235952

That's fair enough in the context of the BBC, but Savile wasn't just an entertainer. Knight of the realm, papal knight and cleared to mingle with monarchs and prime ministers alike - during the panic of the Cold War where one would assume that security vetting was important. It's difficult to see Savile as the iceberg in that context, particularly when you've got former Prime Ministers and Home Secretaries amongst those named as paedophiles.

You've spent time working in the media. Ever hear any whispers yourself?

Unlike everyone else, he can go to Barbados and (possibly) avoid extradition.

You specist bastard!* *Is specist a word?

You're wasting your life here, Bear. You should set up some sort of premium rate helpline. "Bear. I'm in a club and this girl is rubbing herself up against me. Is she interested?" "FFS, pap, I love your money but I'm starting to feel sorry for you!"

At the Left Unity party conference, we had a motion on whether the party should ally itself more with the Greens. It was all going well until a representative from Sheffield got up, and gave an impassioned speech involving several examples of Green party duplicity and hypocrisy. The motion was voted down. The problem for the Greens is that they've got no real control. One of this guy's points involved the hypocrisy of railing against austerity, yet practising it locally where they are in power. It's an interesting contention. We all know that practically, the Greens resisting austerity would lead to some Hatton-esque standoff, but equally, I wonder at what might have happened if places like Brighton dug in and said no. A national news story for sure, and actions speak louder than words.

Classic film. Think I've only seen it twice. Once as a kid, and once with my kids. Had to be done.

Aye, but most of the clientele are committed White British drinkers.

I've found that it takes two forms. When single, it's just not working out whether someone likes you. I've been told loads of times after the fact by mates that such and such was into me at a certain time, I cross-reference that with certain memories, and think "oh pap, you stupid bastard". In a relationship, it's when your significant other drops several clues in the build up to an event, such as a birthday. Men often completely fail to pick up on these hints, and are utterly bewildered when they get spare-roomed because the garage-bought flowers aren't good enough, apparently. I've told ms pap straight. Don't do hints. I will never get hints.

Most men are crap at hints. I am one of them, and was bloody terrible at picking up signals as a teenager. Consequently, I think women need to initiate, purely for their own sakes. Most men are crap at hints.

Sorry, am I meant to take that seriously? My rebuttal to your nonsensical parroting of "the russian winter won the war" was comprehensive, ta. Yet you feel confident enough to say I'm backing my opinions with nothing, yet oddly enough, producing one-liners backed with precisely that. What part of my summary do you dispute, expert?

Post #4 - Tim getting owned on the Eastern Front http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?53535-Britain-sending-military-personnel-to-Ukraine-in-quot-advisory-quot-role&p=2143426#post2143426 Post #11 - Tim accuses me of being thick http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?53535-Britain-sending-military-personnel-to-Ukraine-in-quot-advisory-quot-role&p=2143580#post2143580 Coincidence?