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This is speculation on my part but the label I want to stick on these people is - Boko Haram

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boko_Haram

Disraeli? George Eliot? Zola?

I do indeed know that, snakehips.

It is those tracts that cause me to label him a proto-nazi. Years ago I read a few books on the intellectual origins of Nazism. Wagner was not un-influential as...

Wagner was a megalomaniac who had a habit of running off with his patron's wives, who repeatedly used women and dumped them, pretended to be gay to seduce Ludwig of Bavaria in order to get his debts...

Wagner was one of the more repulsive human beings to waste the air of this planet. He must take a share of the blame for the events in Germany between 1933 and 1945.

Some nice tunes, but, on the...

No; don't do that.

Start with Der Fliegende Hollander

Well, here's a novelty for the Bilge. Someone who starts a thread, closes it, re-opens it to post a comment that he has just thought of, then closes it again so no-one can reply to his latest...

Indeed not.

A lot of ROV pilots in Subic, too.

Cheatsville - the Thames "A" rater, an 1890's scow type, will plane, but only nowadays (because they have trapezes and the hulls are stronger) and of course not in their native haunts.

The troublemakers are just the Bastards (John Major's* word) and the Nasty people (Theresa May's **word) inside the Tory party.

* Former Prime Minister
** Current Home Secretary

They are not...

Awful.

Sorry Doug; you are the control sample.

No, I consider it to be a very serious crime. If you read my comments on this thread that will be self evident.

Your intentions in starting this thread are another matter; I suspect that they...

Gareth, I'm not attacking either Lefty (whom I don't know) or RP (whom I know better) - I am commenting on the effort that so many other people (yes, including me) have put into these two threads.

Happy Birthday, and my regards to the Committee.

We tried that. It works.

I've given it two days...

Is it:

a) Rum Pirate's Umbrellagate thread?

b) Lefty's Sex Tourism in SE Asia thread?

c) Any thread started by someone called Doug, using a pseudonym?

I had a boss - a highly intelligent Englishman from a wealthy background, who, when working as the CEO of US Cold Storage, in New Jersey, was stopped in the street by a pretty woman who asked him if...

I fancy that very many of the smaller NGOs owe their existence to an ego trip on the part of their founders. Herding cats would be simplicity itself compared to herding small NGOs.

Yet, in...

I don't know what those children's options might be - better if they go to school, but worse if they pick rubbish on a refuse dump.

In a word, yes. Farage says that racist comments by UKIP candidates in the recent local elections were because his party "lacked the resources" to vet candidates properly.

No doubt he has informed...

Like the Bigfella. I tried not wearing one, and relying on my phone for the time.

I decided that I didn't like it, and bought myself a cheap Pulsar automatic.

I notice that Alex, aged 18,...

Well, I have been in a few girlie bars over the decades, and in a geisha house in Japan and a keysing house in Korea. In the case of the geisha house I was in the company of a lady member of the...

The RW of the Tories would indeed prefer a deal with UKIP; thinking Tories (there are some - Ken Clarke is the outstanding example) recognise UKIP as a dagger aimed at the heart of their ancient...

To be honest, most illegally logged timber in Asia is not valuable species like tectona grandis or dalbergia latifolia.

Most of it - I'd say 95% - ends up as shuttering ply in China and Japan. But...

The only agenda-free serious newspaper in Britain with a good reporting staff and budget is the Financial Times, but they are behind a paywall. The Independent is more or less middle of the road, the...

Toyota Starionanyone - launched as the Stallion until somebody told them...

Nissan Cedric was a bit naff too in a different way...

There is a calculation that at least two million jobs would go, but I suppose that would ease the Servant Problem.

I'm not PI.

But this is what I wrote in Another Place on the same subject:

The EU issue will wreck the Tories again. We are seeing a re-run of a twenty year old slow motion train wreck.

It...

I had to look up "sophomore", as I was worried that I might have to plead the Fifth, but I see that a sophomore is in the tenth grade, or what we used to call the Fourth Form, and I certainly don't....

A few years ago, China effectively banned logging, as so much damage was being done by floods.

Logging inside the Middle Kingdom, that is.

Logging in lands occupied by Outer Barbarians is...

Absolutely correct on both counts.

The two of them are the biggest slimeballs in British politics (and I am INCLUDING Martin McGuinness, Gerry Adams and the Reverend Ian Paisley)

Doug, it seems to me clear that:

1. Children in SE Asia do get abused, sexually, both by citizens of their own countries and by foreign tourists. Children probably get abused sexually in most...

I am starting to wonder if there is a pattern here - APLE in Cambodia seem to get the same sort of flak as Fr Shay Cullen's PREDA

http://www.preda.org/en/

does in Olongapo - "going over the...

The BBC have now put a report of the case that I heard about on their radio news this morning on their website; here it is at last:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-22594318

And I...

I hate that picture!

BBC radio news reported a case today; I tried to Google it but drew a blank, but the combination of seach terms I used did throw up this oddity:

http://tpf-cambodia.com/

No idea what the...

The RAF crew were very complimentary about their treatment whilst they were interned.

There is a TSR2 at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford, in the same hangar as a Vulcan and a Concorde. It is not a smalll aircraft.

As an example of how far we have come, there was an issue with the...

I think you (and JRR Tolkien) are mistaken, and I am right.

"Whence" = "from where"

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/06/the-word-whence-is-pretty-much-always-used-incorrectly/

Chapeau!

The cancellation of the TSR2 was and remains hugely controversial. It was years ahead of its time and threw up all sorts of problems, most of which were well on the way to being solved.

Many...

It was the TSR 2.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAC_TSR-2

http://prototypes.free.fr/tsr2/imagewof/tsr2_07.jpg

This aircraft:


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/VulcanblackbuckefJM.jpg/800px-VulcanblackbuckefJM.jpg

story here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Black_Buck...

You can, of course, spend more..

http://www.swaineadeney.co.uk/products/m_malpow_u/index.html

I did once have a Swaine Adeney and Brigg silk umbrella; I bought it at the London Transport lost...

Here you are:

http://www.foxumbrellas.co.uk/acatalog/Gents_Tube_Umbrellas.html

http://www.foxumbrellas.co.uk/acatalog/GT3-thumb.jpg

To you, sir, £111.00p

+1.

As one who does two hours each way, I think you are right. But being a gutless old wimp, the bike comes out in summer and sleeps in the garage all winter. And its only 70hp.