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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,119

  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,317
    Always buy Easyjet tickets as singles. (Ditto with SNCF, from past experience.)

    Trying to reschedule the two legs of a return trip was a nightmare, as both the app and website screwed it up every time. Solved by going onto their website chat feature (which is good) and sorting it out that way.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,462
    From watching Pointless earlier, Madonna isn't credited for her appearance in Die Another Day despite the fairly major cameo. I assume this was at her own request in the hope people would forget about it.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,308
    Pross said:

    From watching Pointless earlier, Madonna isn't credited for her appearance in Die Another Day despite the fairly major cameo. I assume this was at her own request in the hope people would forget about it.

    Can't say that I noticed. Her wish granted. 😉
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
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  • womack
    womack Posts: 566
    Gwen Dickey is now in a wheelchair.

    Her original version of I'm Going Down is one of the songs of my youth and what a performance.


    https://youtu.be/Dmujk9VYFlw
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,301
    Reading Morpugo's 'The nine lives of Montezuma' with Shorty, I stumbled on 3 words (in one chapter alone), that I have never heard before:

    Sybarite
    Inveigle
    Shippen
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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,317
    pinno said:

    Reading Morpugo's 'The nine lives of Montezuma' with Shorty, I stumbled on 3 words (in one chapter alone), that I have never heard before:

    Sybarite
    Inveigle
    Shippen


    Did you never do 'It pays to improve your word power' in random copies of Readers' Digest in doctors' waiting rooms on yer yoof? Mind you... I did have to remind myself about 'Sybarite'. 😳
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  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 17,137
    briantrumpet said:

    pinno said:

    Reading Morpugo's 'The nine lives of Montezuma' with Shorty, I stumbled on 3 words (in one chapter alone), that I have never heard before:

    Sybarite
    Inveigle
    Shippen


    Did you never do 'It pays to improve your word power' in random copies of Readers' Digest in doctors' waiting rooms on yer yoof? Mind you... I did have to remind myself about 'Sybarite'. 😳
    😔
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,317
    rick_chasey said:


    It does now have the feeling that these are being leaked in a particular order.
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,301
    briantrumpet said:

    Readers' Digest

    Eeek.

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  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    briantrumpet said:

    rick_chasey said:


    It does now have the feeling that these are being leaked in a particular order.
    Apparently there are witnesses to the PM and his wife being there.

    Specifically to the journo's tweet - I am not sure how it proves that the number of invitees was over 100, simply that a number of people were invited.
  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 17,137
    briantrumpet said:

    rick_chasey said:


    It does now have the feeling that these are being leaked in a particular order.
    I think he's lost the dressing room, to use a footballing parlance.
  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    Is it possible for him to face criminal charges? Please let it be so
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,317
    pinno said:

    briantrumpet said:

    Readers' Digest

    Eeek.

    I only read the wordpower items, honest.
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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,317
    shirley_basso said:

    Is it possible for him to face criminal charges? Please let it be so

    This all needs to go in the Tory or virus thread...
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,301
    briantrumpet said:

    pinno said:

    briantrumpet said:

    Readers' Digest

    Eeek.

    I only read the wordpower items, honest.
    And there you/I go: I didn't know there was a game in RD that is called 'Word power' 'cos at the age of 15 some well meaning Christian loaned me a few and even then I thought that they were shyte as I flicked through them. By then I had read books by Steinbeck, JB Priestley, Hemmingway...
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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,317
    pinno said:

    briantrumpet said:

    pinno said:

    briantrumpet said:

    Readers' Digest

    Eeek.

    I only read the wordpower items, honest.
    And there you/I go: I didn't know there was a game in RD that is called 'Word power' 'cos at the age of 15 some well meaning Christian loaned me a few and even then I thought that they were shyte as I flicked through them. By then I had read books by Steinbeck, JB Priestley, Hemmingway...
    Oh, the rest of them was worse than shyte.
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,301
    shirley_basso said:

    Is it possible for him to face criminal charges? Please let it be so

    Sure but if Spaffer goes, we're left with Patel?!, Gove?! and whatever creepy crawly Tory who wants to be PM.
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  • surrey_commuter
    surrey_commuter Posts: 18,867
    pinno said:

    shirley_basso said:

    Is it possible for him to face criminal charges? Please let it be so

    Sure but if Spaffer goes, we're left with Patel?!, Gove?! and whatever creepy crawly Tory who wants to be PM.
    I like Gove, he is the only one who gets sh1t done
  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,227
    surrey_commuter said:

    pinno said:

    shirley_basso said:

    Is it possible for him to face criminal charges? Please let it be so

    Sure but if Spaffer goes, we're left with Patel?!, Gove?! and whatever creepy crawly Tory who wants to be PM.
    I like Gove, he is the only one who gets censored done
    Hos-n-blo?
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,462
    surrey_commuter said:

    pinno said:

    shirley_basso said:

    Is it possible for him to face criminal charges? Please let it be so

    Sure but if Spaffer goes, we're left with Patel?!, Gove?! and whatever creepy crawly Tory who wants to be PM.
    I like Gove, he is the only one who gets censored done
    It's worrying when Gove is seen as the best solution, shows how lightweight politics has become when you look back at all the politicians from a decade or so back that never became PM (even if you didn't agree with their politics at least many of them were capable of coming up with policies). It's an even more sad indictment on the opposition that the Tories aren't polling a distant second (or even third).
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,887
    Pross said:

    surrey_commuter said:

    pinno said:

    shirley_basso said:

    Is it possible for him to face criminal charges? Please let it be so

    Sure but if Spaffer goes, we're left with Patel?!, Gove?! and whatever creepy crawly Tory who wants to be PM.
    I like Gove, he is the only one who gets censored done
    It's worrying when Gove is seen as the best solution, shows how lightweight politics has become when you look back at all the politicians from a decade or so back that never became PM (even if you didn't agree with their politics at least many of them were capable of coming up with policies). It's an even more sad indictment on the opposition that the Tories aren't polling a distant second (or even third).
    I think this is rose tinted glasses. Previous Conservative leaders:

    William Hague
    Iain Duncan Smith
    Michael Howard
    David Cameron
    Theresa May

  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,308
    TheBigBean said:

    Pross said:

    surrey_commuter said:

    pinno said:

    shirley_basso said:

    Is it possible for him to face criminal charges? Please let it be so

    Sure but if Spaffer goes, we're left with Patel?!, Gove?! and whatever creepy crawly Tory who wants to be PM.
    I like Gove, he is the only one who gets censored done
    It's worrying when Gove is seen as the best solution, shows how lightweight politics has become when you look back at all the politicians from a decade or so back that never became PM (even if you didn't agree with their politics at least many of them were capable of coming up with policies). It's an even more sad indictment on the opposition that the Tories aren't polling a distant second (or even third).
    I think this is rose tinted glasses. Previous Conservative leaders:

    William Hague
    Iain Duncan Smith
    Michael Howard
    David Cameron
    Theresa May

    I would still pick any of the above ahead of Gove, even with hindsight.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
    Veronese68 wrote:
    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 17,137
    pblakeney said:

    TheBigBean said:

    Pross said:

    surrey_commuter said:

    pinno said:

    shirley_basso said:

    Is it possible for him to face criminal charges? Please let it be so

    Sure but if Spaffer goes, we're left with Patel?!, Gove?! and whatever creepy crawly Tory who wants to be PM.
    I like Gove, he is the only one who gets censored done
    It's worrying when Gove is seen as the best solution, shows how lightweight politics has become when you look back at all the politicians from a decade or so back that never became PM (even if you didn't agree with their politics at least many of them were capable of coming up with policies). It's an even more sad indictment on the opposition that the Tories aren't polling a distant second (or even third).
    I think this is rose tinted glasses. Previous Conservative leaders:

    William Hague
    Iain Duncan Smith
    Michael Howard
    David Cameron
    Theresa May

    I would still pick any of the above ahead of Gove, even with hindsight.
    The main issue the Tories have for the next few years is that anyone who has worked well with a leader who so utterly lacks integrity will, by extension also lack integrity.
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,317
    pblakeney said:

    TheBigBean said:

    Pross said:

    surrey_commuter said:

    pinno said:

    shirley_basso said:

    Is it possible for him to face criminal charges? Please let it be so

    Sure but if Spaffer goes, we're left with Patel?!, Gove?! and whatever creepy crawly Tory who wants to be PM.
    I like Gove, he is the only one who gets censored done
    It's worrying when Gove is seen as the best solution, shows how lightweight politics has become when you look back at all the politicians from a decade or so back that never became PM (even if you didn't agree with their politics at least many of them were capable of coming up with policies). It's an even more sad indictment on the opposition that the Tories aren't polling a distant second (or even third).
    I think this is rose tinted glasses. Previous Conservative leaders:

    William Hague
    Iain Duncan Smith
    Michael Howard
    David Cameron
    Theresa May

    I would still pick any of the above ahead of Gove, even with hindsight.

    IDS? Seriously??
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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,887
    pblakeney said:

    TheBigBean said:

    Pross said:

    surrey_commuter said:

    pinno said:

    shirley_basso said:

    Is it possible for him to face criminal charges? Please let it be so

    Sure but if Spaffer goes, we're left with Patel?!, Gove?! and whatever creepy crawly Tory who wants to be PM.
    I like Gove, he is the only one who gets censored done
    It's worrying when Gove is seen as the best solution, shows how lightweight politics has become when you look back at all the politicians from a decade or so back that never became PM (even if you didn't agree with their politics at least many of them were capable of coming up with policies). It's an even more sad indictment on the opposition that the Tories aren't polling a distant second (or even third).
    I think this is rose tinted glasses. Previous Conservative leaders:

    William Hague
    Iain Duncan Smith
    Michael Howard
    David Cameron
    Theresa May

    I would still pick any of the above ahead of Gove, even with hindsight.
    Michael Howard? I think he was the worst leader of the opposition this century.
  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 17,137
    TheBigBean said:

    pblakeney said:

    TheBigBean said:

    Pross said:

    surrey_commuter said:

    pinno said:

    shirley_basso said:

    Is it possible for him to face criminal charges? Please let it be so

    Sure but if Spaffer goes, we're left with Patel?!, Gove?! and whatever creepy crawly Tory who wants to be PM.
    I like Gove, he is the only one who gets censored done
    It's worrying when Gove is seen as the best solution, shows how lightweight politics has become when you look back at all the politicians from a decade or so back that never became PM (even if you didn't agree with their politics at least many of them were capable of coming up with policies). It's an even more sad indictment on the opposition that the Tories aren't polling a distant second (or even third).
    I think this is rose tinted glasses. Previous Conservative leaders:

    William Hague
    Iain Duncan Smith
    Michael Howard
    David Cameron
    Theresa May

    I would still pick any of the above ahead of Gove, even with hindsight.
    Michael Howard? I think he was the worst leader of the opposition this century.
    But good in panto.

    Besides, having a pathological liar in charge probably is worse than CCount Backwards from Sesame Street.
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,317
    These threads are getting confusing - can we regroup the Tory party stuff in the right thread please?
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,462
    TheBigBean said:

    Pross said:

    surrey_commuter said:

    pinno said:

    shirley_basso said:

    Is it possible for him to face criminal charges? Please let it be so

    Sure but if Spaffer goes, we're left with Patel?!, Gove?! and whatever creepy crawly Tory who wants to be PM.
    I like Gove, he is the only one who gets censored done
    It's worrying when Gove is seen as the best solution, shows how lightweight politics has become when you look back at all the politicians from a decade or so back that never became PM (even if you didn't agree with their politics at least many of them were capable of coming up with policies). It's an even more sad indictment on the opposition that the Tories aren't polling a distant second (or even third).
    I think this is rose tinted glasses. Previous Conservative leaders:

    William Hague
    Iain Duncan Smith
    Michael Howard
    David Cameron
    Theresa May

    Cameron was streets ahead of the current lot during a pretty difficult time although he made the stupid mistake of being bullied by Farage into the Brexit referendum. May was the wrong PM at the wrong time although calling a GE was a stupid mistake. Gove was comprehensively beaten when he stood against her (and only got a few more votes than Leadsom!) and was quite widely ridiculed as a contender back then from memory yet is now seen as the best option. Hague was a bit ridiculous in his attempts to be a man of the people but I think he was a decent politician.

    I was thinking back more to past Cabinet members in the days of Thatcher or Blair who never even became Party leader.

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