DonnyTJS
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On 6/24/2018 at 10:42 AM, Caledonian Craig said:
And sorry but Scotland has its own legal and education system compared to rest of the UK. Also it differs socially and culturally as well as politically from rest of UK. We share different views on key issues and politically whereas Toryism is the norm elsewhere it is over half a century since the Tories were the most popular party in Scotland.
I'm well aware of Scotland's separate legal and education systems, thank you. I was simply pointing out that there's significant shared culture when compared to the EU.
12 minutes ago, aaid said:While I wouldn't say that social and cultural differences vary widely between Scotland and England, to say that they are "very thin" is stretching it somewhat.
If you look at the data then while both the UK and Scottish social attitudes surveys both show broadly centrist positions - in Scotland its more of a centre-left position.The largest group of Scottish Leave voters being SNP supporters is down to one thing and one thing only. The SNP has the biggest support of any party in Scotland.
The proportion on SNP voters who voted Leave was broadly similiar to Labour.
The largest number of Leave voters by far though were from your party.FWIW, the only worthwhile measure of cultural affinity is how easy it is for a member of one culture to use a supermarket in another.
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55 minutes ago, Caledonian Craig said:
Excuse me but Scotland looking to leave the UK is something on a far lesser scale than UK leaving the EU
Really? It takes a fairly bizarre reading of history to suggest that the dissolution of a 300-year-old political union - a nation state with all the shared cultural and economic elements that have developed with it - is on a lesser scale than leaving an economic grouping that has only really attempted a strong political focus since the early 1990s. This doesn't mean that dissolving the UK is either impossible or undesirable, it just means that your statement is myopic.
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23 minutes ago, Toepoke said:
Thought Jonny had rejoined us for a minute...
So did I. But upon opening the thread last night, found it had been resurrected by that Debora poster: "Good evening. While waiting for a bus I overheard two people discussing bitcoin and they recommended this site … <some link or other>". Obviously a bot, so I made a post pointing this out. Woke this morning (my time) to find that both posts had been deleted (and at least one more as I had a notification that Ally B had quoted my post) … then I forgot about it as we had a bit of an earthquake, and a 6.1er tends to monopolize the concentration.
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Now then … Malcolm Owen, Joe Strummer, Ian Curtis, Ari Up, Lemmy (+ Fast Eddie & Phil), Lee Brilleaux, Mick Green (The Pirates), Bert Weedon ...
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1 hour ago, Toepoke said:
The infamous TAMB upgrade.
Plus I think a lot called it a day after we fecked up the Euros.
That upgrade was certainly a factor. The Euros; the post-2014 hangover really kicking in; the rise of other forms of social media ...
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On 2/8/2018 at 8:51 AM, DonnyTJS said:
Well, I'm not sure how useful this is, but I've been making rough estimates (the imperfect methodology is explained here) of posting quantity for the month of May over the past few years:
May 2009: 21,292 posts
May 2010: 16,895 posts (I think Reeky Sporran might have been suspended)
May 2011: 24,602 posts
May 2012: 19,106 posts
May 2013: 14,696 posts
May 2014: 17,434 posts
May 2015: 17,943 posts
May 2016: 9,505 posts
May 2017: 6160 posts
Now, we could average Fringo's daily averages (163.5) and multiply by 31 giving us 5,068 but that's hardly fair as there appears to have been a line-of-best-fit rise in posting over the three-month spread of Fringo's analysis. What we need is for someone to take the daily numbers for 31 consecutive days, and Fringo's clearly the man to do it
May 2018: 5,243 ...
Women, children and middle-aged statos first.
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3 minutes ago, Ally Bongo said:
Early 1930s ?
Actually, the issue there was divorce.
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8 minutes ago, Orraloon said:
Are you assuming that their ancestors are all fathered by who they think they are? Like a lot of folk still think with Harry?
It doesn't make the slightest difference. Since when did symbolism depend upon genetics?
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28 minutes ago, Ally Bongo said:
Obviously i am aware of the narrative
It just seems all too convenient
Things like this
Aye, slap us down with an Express story. You were talking about their being 'descendants' - we don't need the Express to tell us that the current monarch isn't a 'direct' descendant, as in pure primogeniture. That's what the whole Act of Settlement was about.
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6 minutes ago, mccaughey85 said:
Well do you want someone and their family who is unelected in charge of you and all yer future generations. If so then you defo have a problems being able to think for yourself.
I do think for myself, honestly. She's not 'in charge' of me. She's a constitutional monarch - same as in Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark - most of northern Europe. What's the point of having an elected apolitical head of state? It simply causes a potential democratic clash with the elected government. There's no inherent advantage in increasing layers of democracy.
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14 minutes ago, mccaughey85 said:
I like to think for myself, I have no queen, I don't need some unelected person ruling over me. If you like that kind of thing perhaps you are the one who needs to grow up. The British monarchy are disgrace to a modern civilized society. If Kenny wants to accept a knighthood from them then sadly he has lost a lot of respect I had for the guy.
… and how does having a monarch prevent anyone thinking for themselves?
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2 minutes ago, mccaughey85 said:
I like to think for myself, I have no queen, I don't need some unelected person ruling over me. If you like that kind of thing perhaps you are the one who needs to grow up. The British monarchy are disgrace to a modern civilized society. If Kenny wants to accept a knighthood from them then sadly he has lost a lot of respect I had for the guy.
In what sense are you ruled over by the queen?
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4 minutes ago, Ally Bongo said:
Also i'm not sure the current Royal Family are descendents of any previous Scottish King or Queen
Really? Yes they are.
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Btw, assuming you were going to spend two or three nights in Cairo you'd want to take in the Cairo Museum, just off Tahrir Square. All the Tutankhamen tomb contents plus a mass of monumental statuary and stuff.
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I know Cairo well. Was last there in 2010, just before Mubarak was overthrown, so don't know the current security situation but suspect a lone male would be absolutely fine if you're sensible (ie: don't go wandering off the beaten track - same as most any large city).
The Giza pyramids are right on the outskirts of Cairo. Any halfway-decent hotel will run a bus out there for guests. If you're looking at three nights there's plenty of options for other days (Giza wouldn't take a whole day anyway). If you're just after pharaonic stuff, I'd spend a day in Sakkara (sometimes written Saqqara), site of the oldest pyramid but also many tombs that are open with wall paintings, incised hieroglyphs and the like - none of which you'd see at Giza. Again, I'd imagine that a hotel would be laying on trips out there (it's a few miles south of the city).
The old medieval centre of Cairo is well worth a visit too, for the architecture, and Khan el Khalili, the main souk in the medieval centre.
Accommodation - depends on budget. Plenty of five-star options, but a personal favourite is the 3-star Windsor Hotel. Great bar barely changed for sixty years or so and I'm sure they run day trips. Palin stayed there in Around the World in 80 Days (I actually appear very briefly being served a beer in a panning shot round the bar).
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1 hour ago, Kimba said:
There are no contradictions when you rightly divide. Get saved by faith alone. Praying for you. x
As has been mentioned before, ad nauseum, 'right division' in this case means dividing Romans 10:10 from Romans 10:12. That's not 'right division', that's redaction. Inventing a 'new dispensation' and then cherry-picking bits of scripture to support it is a poor route to salvation.
1 hour ago, Kimba said:Come on Mr. stop gatekeeping for the occultists. I want your soul saved Donny and you will be. You know the truth.
That's very kind of you, but I'm reasonably confident that it doesn't work quite like that. I also think that if I was working for the occultists, I'd mention the benefits of the occult now and again - you know, a bit of mild occultism clears the sinuses and does wonders for the libido: that kind of thing ...
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Hi Kimba.
No. Have you an answer for the contradictions in Paul?
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10 hours ago, Kimba said:
So, to conclude - its clear now:
ISRAEL has a FUTURE salvation on earth which is where Jesus separates the goats and sheep at his second coming after the 7 year tribulation. Scotty and much of Christendom erroneously think they are the sheep because they ignore that it states that is Israel that is being referred to and don't rightly divide and they are COMPLETELY IGNORANT of the mystery program given to the apostle Paul.
Israel have a performance based acceptance program (works to back up their faith), which is why apostate Christendom believe their behaviour/obedience proves they are the sheep and not goats. However, they are wrong because Israel is presently FALLEN (Romans 11:11) and that prophetic program will not be reinstated until after the rapture of the Body of Christ.
The Body of Christ in the present dispensation of grace has a PRESENT POSSESSION of eternal salvation (see scripture below) that we get when we simply believe the gospel of grace. This dispensation does NOT have a performance based acceptance program, which is why OUR APOSTLE PAUL in this dispensation of the MYSTERY program clearly states it is without works, whereas the twelve (for the twelve tribes of Israel) preached works of righteousness for their future salvation.
So, apostate Christendom are in the WRONG program and trying to earn their salvation by adding works to faith (no matter how hard they tell you they aren't) which you can't do in this dispensation (Romans 4:4). They should instead be trusting in the death burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ for the FULL PAYMENT for their sins.
No-one needs to know right division to be saved - they only need to believe the gospel of grace - i.e. TRUSTING in the finished work of Jesus Christ and not your own performance for salvation. However, it's vital to know RD for growth and so you don't fall into apostasy such as thinking you are Israel.
None of that is clear in Paul, for the perfectly simple reason that Paul never said it. What he did say, clearly, was that "there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek" (Romans 10:12). He had plenty of opportunity to spell out this 'program' (chapter 8 of Romans would be one obvious place when he talks about what can separate us from Christ), but he doesn't. Indeed, 'program' isn't a biblical word. It's a 20th century North American usage … which is where this novel misreading of Paul originates.
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1 hour ago, Huddersfield said:
I read a superb book a few years ago which I've since lost so can't exactly recall the title, but the stories of the astronaut's lives and preparation along with detailed mission detail was great. If I find it next time I clear my loft, I'll post the title!
There's a few great stories that I have heard - I think Armstrong (maybe) told how one night shortly before launch he went to do some work (I forget the detail) & was surprised by noises coming from nearby. He checked & found an engineer fiddling about & so he asked him what he was working on. The guy apparently replied saying "I'm working on putting a man on the moon, sir". He said that he suddenly felt a huge surge in confidence that the mission would succeed realising that there were thousands of people who were focused on every minor detail imaginable.
(Just an edit to add obviously I have no way of knowing if that ever happened & it might be NASA PR, but it's such a great story I really hope it's true).
Similarly, I have a great book, but it's on t'other side of the world at the moment and I can't remember the author. It focuses on the space race, the early lead of the USSR and NASA's desperation to catch up. The event that struck me most (though, as mentioned, I don't remember it) was the death of the three astronauts on Apollo 1. Gus Grissom had been one of the original Mercury 7 - he'd made the second sub-orbital flight (Glenn's orbit was the third US manned launch, the first two were just parabolas.). When the Mercury capsule landed in the Atlantic he blew the hatch too early, water came in and it sank, nearly taking him with it (all this is from memory so might have the details wrong).
I've always had a soft spot for Grissom - look at the photos, he wasn't yer square-jawed space-hero type, unlike the rest of the Mercury 7. Years ago I was on Grand Bahama, just cutting through the pine barrens, and came upon a deserted group of buildings. Clearly long abandoned, one of them was a library with tattered books still on the shelves, visible through a broken window. Mystified I wandered round to the front of one of the buildings and it was covered by a faded mural of what was clearly a Mercury capsule being shot out of Kennedy, over Grand Bahama. Finally I found a plaque, and it turned out that this had been the place where the first two astronauts, Shepherd, I think, and Grissom, along with Ham who'd chimped the first, pre-human, launch, had been taken after being picked up from the ocean. A spooky place.
The descriptions of the Apollo 1 fire are horrific - pure oxygen in there. They could be heard banging on the side of the capsule but there was no way to open the hatch quickly enough (I've a vague memory that this was because they no longer used explosive bolts since Grissom's Mercury accident, which would be a tragic irony if I haven't imagined it). White had been the first American to space-walk, during the Gemini programme, once again pipped to it by the Ruskies.
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There's the odd bit of whistling in this Stanshall classic:
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1 minute ago, Orraloon said:
Oh aye, right enough. I forgotten about that. In my memory the giant leap happened not long after the landing. Obviously not.
One thing I remember is the radio silence as they went round the back of the moon. Then the anxious wait near the end, waiting for them to come back on air again to see if they were still alive.
Yup, same with re-entering the earth's atmosphere. Long radio blackout at probably the most dangerous part of the mission (along with lift-off, I guess). Nail-biting stuff.
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6 minutes ago, Orraloon said:
You must have been sent to your bed early? It was just after nine BST.
That made me check. Nope, you're on about the landing (which I was allowed to stay up for …). Armstrong didn't leave the module until six hours later.
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19 minutes ago, Huddersfield said:
It seems like an awful long time ago now - like I said above, the teachers were telling us at the time that when we grew up we'd be able to go on holiday to the Moon & see where they landed. She never mentioned I'd have to pay Richard Branson a few million quid just to get 100 miles closer.
I used to love James Burke, Tomorrow's World & all that - technology seemed exciting to me as a kid. It just scares the crap out of me now
Agree with all of that. One of the many good things about Osaka is that the 1970 World Expo was held a couple of miles from where I stay. Expo's actually meant something back then when the future seemed boundless (barring nuclear holocaust). Plenty survives today (including this) and the monorail that was built as part of the infrastructure. Every time I ride it I get daftly excited - it's like entering the future fifty years ago, if that makes sense.
Back in '69, I was woken up to watch Armstrong and Aldrin take the first steps on the moon (must've been fairly late BST). My most vivid memory is of staring at my dad's back as he completely obscured the TV taking photos of the screen.
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2 hours ago, Toepoke said:
Great footage. Apollo 12 is a favourite mission of mine, I was born during it
There's not much good about being nearer 60 than 50, but being able to remember the Apollo space program as it happened is a definite plus. I don't think I recall the deaths of Grissom, White and Chaffee, but at some point between then and the launch of Apollo 8 I had become gripped, and my long-term memory had started to function properly.
The Airfix stuff was great too. I couldn't afford the Saturn V, but my neighbour had it, and I had the lunar module. Shitely put together, but still a thing of strange beauty.
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Parklife wasn't talking about you; he explicitly says that he's referring to the poster with the highest number of reputation points. However, to be fair, thinking he was talking about you does make you come across as dumb as fuck.