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Post by partickpotter on Aug 6, 2020 8:19:40 GMT
How brown and/or Muslim are the people of Lebanon? (I'm that pig ignorant that my base level of understanding of the issues in that area are based entirely on The Human League song 'The Lebanon'.) If it's more than 10% them I'm writing to my MP or going on a march or something. FREE TONY ROBINSON! Has Baldrick been locked up ? That was an awful song, in fact The Human League only made awful songs. Not true. Being Boiled is superb.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2020 9:11:28 GMT
Has Baldrick been locked up ? That was an awful song, in fact The Human League only made awful songs. Not true. Being Boiled is superb. erm...we'll agree to disagree on that I do remember a bloke in my local record shop in Galway sporting the Phil Oakey haircut though. I remember buying a Stiff Little Fingers album off him and for some reason and he gave me a bit of an unapproving look.
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Post by heworksardtho on Aug 6, 2020 9:27:36 GMT
How brown and/or Muslim are the people of Lebanon? (I'm that pig ignorant that my base level of understanding of the issues in that area are based entirely on The Human League song 'The Lebanon'.) If it's more than 10% them I'm writing to my MP or going on a march or something. FREE TONY ROBINSON! Has Baldrick been locked up ? That was an awful song, in fact The Human League only made awful songs.   Didn’t Phil Oakey ended up boning both the two girl singers in the group 👅
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2020 9:37:59 GMT
Has Baldrick been locked up ? That was an awful song, in fact The Human League only made awful songs. Didn’t Phil Oakey ended up boning both the two girl singers in the group 👅 I know Edward Tudor-pole banged the blonde one. Bizarrely met him in a pub in Belfast a few years back and was talking about TOTP and the things that went on. Apparently The Nolans were a bit naughty by all accounts. One of his band mates had a sister in a group called The Mo-dettes who were filth as he described them Thoroughly nice chap
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Post by Northy on Aug 6, 2020 10:09:36 GMT
If the death toll is really the 135 or so they are reporting then its a miracle. A blast felt 150 miles away in Cyprus in the port in the heart of a city of 2.4 million people. It seems scarcely believable. I thought it was seen and heard but not felt in Cyprus ?
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Post by Northy on Aug 6, 2020 10:10:15 GMT
It Certainly left a big bloody hole! Is that a cruise ship/ferry lying on it's side on the right?
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Post by Gods on Aug 6, 2020 10:24:32 GMT
If the death toll is really the 135 or so they are reporting then its a miracle. A blast felt 150 miles away in Cyprus in the port in the heart of a city of 2.4 million people. It seems scarcely believable. I thought it was seen and heard but not felt in Cyprus ? Oh probably, still the same point though, death count seems remarkably low. Guess in reality the port is some distance from the housing, fortunately.
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Post by franklin66 on Aug 6, 2020 11:37:42 GMT
I thought it was seen and heard but not felt in Cyprus ? Oh probably, still the same point though, death count seems remarkably low. Guess in reality the port is some distance from the housing, fortunately. Those close could have been vaporized with such a massive explosion and never found.
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Post by Northy on Aug 6, 2020 11:42:49 GMT
Didn’t Phil Oakey ended up boning both the two girl singers in the group 👅 I know Edward Tudor-pole banged the blonde one. Bizarrely met him in a pub in Belfast a few years back and was talking about TOTP and the things that went on. Apparently The Nolans were a bit naughty by all accounts. One of his band mates had a sister in a group called The Mo-dettes who were filth as he described them Thoroughly nice chap she lowered herself a bit then, unless she was after 'the swords of a thousand men'
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Post by butlerstbob on Aug 6, 2020 12:23:58 GMT
It Certainly left a big bloody hole! Is that a cruise ship/ferry lying on it's side on the right? Yes it is, that could be the one that was moored right up against the blast? possibly??
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2020 12:31:31 GMT
I know Edward Tudor-pole banged the blonde one. Bizarrely met him in a pub in Belfast a few years back and was talking about TOTP and the things that went on. Apparently The Nolans were a bit naughty by all accounts. One of his band mates had a sister in a group called The Mo-dettes who were filth as he described them Thoroughly nice chap she lowered herself a bit then, unless she was after 'the swords of a thousand men' One of the great stories he told was Legs & Co were doing some dress rehearsal to dance to a Stevie Wonder song and one of them couldn't be found.The floor manager went looking for her and found her bent over being 'serviced' by a band member. Wasn't a show he himself was on but one of the acts told him. He didn't tell me who it was but reading between the lines it was Roger Daltrey. Sorry to go completely off tangent from Beirut to that
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Post by partickpotter on Aug 7, 2020 6:46:24 GMT
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Post by wagsastokie on Aug 7, 2020 7:09:11 GMT
They didn't do a great job in Vietnam
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Post by partickpotter on Aug 7, 2020 8:00:45 GMT
They didn't do a great job in Vietnam Or Algeria. It’s sort of interesting to compare British and French colonialism because there were quite different underlying philosophies behind each nation’s efforts. Britain was really all about establishing global trade so it could be detached from the ongoing tribulations and tumults of mainland Europe (sound familiar?). Hence the colonisation of India was effectively the privatisation of a private trading company. For France it was about France, exporting it’s values and making nations a part of a Global France. Of course, for the majority of the inhabitants of these countries this is a distinction that passed over their heads. But it did (and does) have consequences that reverberate today. Whether Britain’s “cut and run” approach, as typified by the partition that divided India in 1946, made independence “better” than France’s desire to retain hard ties as in Algeria is again moot in the short term; a lot of people died. In the longer term who knows. Britain does seem to have developed a good relationship with most of its formal colonies as seen in the success of the Commonwealth and, of course, this summer’s cricket tours. France’s relationships with its former colonies seems more fractious and insidious. A good book that shows the different approaches of each country is Line in the Sand about the Sykes Picott line. Also well worth a read.
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