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1. 7 minutes ago on Speed Bump

   What would you call them?…. William B Yeats, an Irish poet, coined it with Strangers are Friends we haven’t met yet

   I call them friends. What do you call them?

   I’ve told you twice already… Let’s hope that a third is a charm… On the floor of the house, yes, (until The Speaker steps in) but rarely in public… It’s simply not the done thing… What in that quote have you not understood?

   I have mentioned Le Pen… That family is the exception that proves the rule

   “France ends ugly campaign" … Ironically, you’ve chosen the one example where it’s the French voters who have been violent… Mon Dieu… There’re hundreds of examples of the French public letting the government (and monarchy) know what it will or won’t stand for… The US could learn a very valuable lesson from the French… When the French voting public aren’t satisfied with a governmental decision, all hell lets forth… Did I mention somewhere about the Gilet Jaune and the Storming of the Bastille and Mme Guillotine ?

   The US voting public are too scared to make their government stop mass school shootings by banning guns… To scared to make Health Care free to everyone… But they’re the first to cry, when it all goes tits-up…

2. 37 minutes ago on That is Priceless

   That’s because we’re all friends here…

3. about 2 hours ago on Speed Bump

   There are many. Read the foreign press.

   I’ve actually lived and worked in dozens of (what you would call, foreign) countries… The debates are mature arguments of policy… I asked you to give me examples, of many… Evidentially, you can’t…

4. about 2 hours ago on Speed Bump

   France is a Republic… Do you have one example of Macron slagging of Le Pen?

   GB is a Democracy… Do you have one example of Sunak slagging of Starmer?

   In fact, give me an example (apart from the US) of any government or opposition slagging each other of or making unnecessary personal remarks… Most governments (in the public arena) will only debate policy with their oppositions, except the US…

5. about 3 hours ago on That is Priceless

   But it is pretty much everyone else’s philosophy, on this thread…

6. about 5 hours ago on Speed Bump

   Yes… On the floor of the house (until The Speaker steps in) but rarely in public… It’s simply not the done thing…

7. about 6 hours ago on That is Priceless

   I only read Playboy for the articles on cars…

8. about 6 hours ago on Speed Bump

   Why is it only in American politics that voters and candidates of opposing parties find it necessary to slag each other off and bad-mouth each other? What is the point?

9. about 19 hours ago on Andy Capp

   So many good Cockney actors out there (Michael Caine for e.g.), why not use a real Cockney?

10. about 19 hours ago on On A Claire Day

    I found the first 10 Doctor Who episodes, archived in France… Nobody knew that they were there or that the entire planet was searching for them…