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Weston has had the ignore list explained to him a hundred times but still fails to understand how it works. I will try again. When you have someone on ignore their post appears only as a greyed out box telling you that they have posted and the poster is on your ignore list. You can then happily carry on and ignore it or you can hit the options button which gives you…some options! One of them is to read the post if you so choose. So you do not have to take the person off of your ignore list, read the post and then put them back as Weston seems to believe, bless him. As you also make clear, if someone else quotes a post from someone on your ignore list, it appears as the quote in their post as it does for any post. So then, it is entirely possible to have someone on your ignore list yet still see their posts, either intentionally if you so chose for specific posts, or unintentionally when an ignored poster is quoted. It really isn’t rocket science yet there are some who don’t seem to understand how it works. For further information, the options given are:- Show this post Stop ignoring posts by XXXX Change ignore preferences

A timely reminder of the evils of the oppression of minority groups. A lesson still not learnt 80 years later. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/holocaust-survivors-march-auschwitz-80-years-after-camps-liberation-2025-04-24/

It sounds like someone has been listening to Nigel Farage again. It’s sad that someone with such a great intellect gets sucked in by someone with such a small intellect. “Young men of fighting age?”. Have you ever stopped to think that they are coming here because they don’t want to fight or live in a country where that is the only option if you stay? Perhaps you should try and look past your tribalist instincts and consider that all human beings deserve to be treated as equals? The vast majority of people turning up on these shores are genuine asylum seekers. Just because some aren’t doesn’t mean that all of them should be tarred with the same brush nic. You call me a racist but you are the one who clearly has an issue with “foreigners”.

Glasgow was Alpine? Really? Anyone know what happened to View From The Top?

Farage and his parties are catnip to people like these sadly. We have only had a Tory and an independent leaflet so far. Labour don’t bother around here but I am surprised the LibDems don’t make more of an effort. I expect the Reform candidates will do well around the Kent coastline as the small boats are still a big issue for the locals. We have a very good independent Borough councillor here and I am hoping that they will displace the Tory from the County Council. It will be interesting to see how the protest votes are split between the LibDems and Reform. I don’t think local councils should be politically motivated at the best of times - local issues should be the driving force - but having a bunch of bigoted racists on local councils is far from ideal.

It must have been very tough to return home without so many shipmates. I can’t imagine what it must have been like out there. Deep respect to you and your colleagues.

Agree about the dentist. I had a new dentist allotted to me last year (NHS). He is very young, lovely guy but the three times I have been to see him he has tried to persuade me to go for “private” options which, of course, cost a great deal more. I was supposed to have a clean last time under the normal check up arrangement and suggested that I went for a “private” more extensive clean for about £70 as my teeth were heavily stained. Given the amount of red wine I drink it would be a few days before they get stained again! Another by product of drinking red wine is black staining of the tongue. The first time he met me he was very concerned about my tongue and couldn’t understand why I wasn’t. He actually arranged for me to go to hospital for tests as he was worried that I might have cancer!! I was tempted to make a remark about how it was amusing that he is a black guy with a pink tongue and I am a white guy with a black tongue, but thought better of it!

Trump is now coming across as King Canute. As if Putin gives a stuff about what Trump thinks. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cvg7jnywn5dt

Jock land? Seriously? I remember when your posts about football were worth reading. These days you just come across as a bitter and twisted old man who can’t get his message across without puerile name calling and can barely string a sentence together without resorting to Anglo-Saxon invective. I thought that with great age was supposed to come great wisdom? You just come across as a jilted lover. He’s gone. Let it go.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-shares-then-deletes-condolences-over-popes-death-2025-04-22/

Better news for Farage than Badenoch. https://news.sky.com/story/robert-jenrick-vows-to-bring-coalition-together-to-end-tory-reform-fight-13354004

MLG is a pedant and clearly cannot help himself. What is your excuse?

Didn’t bother with The Last of Us first series when it came out as not into zombies but after reading several favourable reviews we gave it a binge watch before series 2 started last week. Totally hooked now and the second episode of the new series last night went total GoT. Gripping stuff with an unexpected twist so early on (if you aren’t familiar with the game).

Trump, financial genius??? https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2025/apr/22/us-dollar-yen-pound-gold-stock-markets-trump-attack-powell-imf-growth-forecast-business-live

The poor old boy didn’t look at all well when they wheeled him out yesterday. Still, you can’t let the faithful down, especially on Easter Sunday.

It’s the Deep State, I tell you!! 😎

Pope Francis died yesterday, hours after meeting JD Vance. Everything the Trump administration touches turns to crap, it seems. Charles might want to rethink that state visit. 🤔

I refer to him by his name. I mentioned here that he had transitioned (trans male) because it is pertinent to the discussion. Transgener people refer to themselves as “trans” as an abbreviation. If it doesn’t bother them I’m surprised that it is an issue for you.

Will it mean that men who have transitioned to women will now have to use men’s toilets and vice versa? I know a trans man with a beard and male pattern baldness. If he was to walk into a women’s toilet they would freak out, yet according to the law he is a (biological) woman.

Condemnation by their own people. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/16/members-of-leading-british-jewish-body-condemn-israels-latest-actions-in-gaza

So much for free speech. https://news.sky.com/story/amp/harvard-university-defies-trumps-demands-as-it-risks-billions-in-federal-funding-13349116

You have a problem with an opposing view about Trump and his actions being nasty? Two posters have told us that Trump is some kind of genius instead of an unstable lunatic. I don’t have a problem calling out anyone who thinks Trump is in anyway remotely normal. And you don’t have a problem calling out people who have opposing views to you do you Whelk?

Liz Truss and GM/eaststandnic separated at birth? https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04/14/trump-bold-action-defeat-quangocracy/

Good to see this issue reaching main stream news. Vets bills have been ridiculously high for some time now. We had a bill for £7,500 after our dog had treatment last year including having a stomach operation that wasn’t, in hindsight, required. We would get a morning call from the night staff each day giving us an update on the dog’s condition but the staff would be more concerned in taking our credit card details (we had to pay for treatment daily) rather than talk about the dog’s condition. One of the older Vets we spoke to talked about how attitudes had changed since he worked for a family vet’s practice (it was taken over by a corporate business) and that he felt it was now more about generating income than pet care. They have you over a barrel. Who is going to say no to treatment despite facing a massive bill for a beloved pet when they are poorly? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62zzegvk33o.amp

In his world if your country is invaded then it is your fault it happened. Just as US soldiers killed or wounded are, in his words, losers (probably because they didn’t have the foresight to develop bone spurs. Every day this moron displays just how unsuitable he is for office and in all probability, for his sake and for the sake of the rest of the world, should probably be in an institution with padded cells. Strangely we still have some posters on here who call this man a genius! Go figure. They way that his administration are also ignoring court orders is chilling. We also have posters here who believe that we should turn our backs on the European Court of Human Rights. No surprise that they support hard right politics and vote for people like Farage. He himself shares Trump’s disdain for basic humanity and human rights. People are being taken off of the streets in the US and being placed in jails in foreign counties without any recourse to a fair, judicial procedure. We still have people here who think it ok to deport people to Rwanda. Just let that sink in for a moment. Gary Lineker took all kinds of shit for stating the fact that a certain type of rhetoric had parallels in Nazi Germany in the 1930’s. We have moved even further along that path since then but where is the outage? Trump, and to a lesser extent Farage, are both very skilled operators at normalising things that would have been dismissed as unacceptable a few years ago. We clearly learn nothing from history.