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  3. Posted

    3 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:


    An earthquake has to be 7+ to be considered major. There are only on average 15 of those per year on the entire planet.

    There are variations from year to year. It goes up and down, but there's no evidence to suggest they're becoming more or less frequent in general.

    Cheers, it's not something I pay much attention to, living in a country where your earthquakes are rare and having forgotten everything about tectonic plates I ever learned in Geography (might have been my second year of Secondary School, I gave the subject up).

     

    So that was a looong time ago. 

     

    I guess I see the reports on here and on the tellybox and am more aware of them.

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  5. Posted

    6 minutes ago, ObakeFilter said:

    I agree, living in Israel, I'm going to have to admit that there are far too many genocidal freaks lurking around, but most of the people are kinda apathetic towards the whole thing and silently accept their government's actions and one could argue that this is even worse. Some of them balantly argue that they 'lost all their empathy to the people of gaza', some of them try to find excuses, others are just ignorant to what their government is doing within its own borders and in other places.

    There was an extraordinary notion of revenge during the first few months that crossed barriers to the so-called centre-left, even some of the biggest opposers of Netanyahu didn't think for a second that they should refuse to participate, even until this very moment.

    Netanyahu is imo putting the people of Israel in more danger. That is unforgiveable, given what happened on October 7th.

     

    He seems hell bent on bringing Lebanon, Hezbollah and Iran into this and the attack on Syrian soil? 

     

    He may be the destruction of Israel, not its saviour and that is an horrific prospect as well. 

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  6. Posted

    I simply do not accept this is a war in its purest sense.

     

    This is an operation to kill terrorists. I'm seeing no organised army in Palestine which justifies the horrors going on there. 

     

    The only thing I can draw equivalence to is this. For example, the folk who blew up the London Underground and the London bus on 7 July 2005 were from Leeds and Aylesbury. Now let's assume the British intelligence had evidence that there were other members of a cell in those locations. What would they do? 

     

    A. Have a special operation to seek out those suspects and bring them to justice. 

     

    Or

     

    B. Bomb the shit out of Leeds and Aylesbury in the hope of killing the suspects associated with the attack.

     

    The casualties among civilians and the malnutrition and starvation just are not justified. You send your operatives into the tunnels, you seek out your enemy and keep civilian death to a minimum.

     

    Netanyahu's history of course is quite different. He seems quite content with indiscriminate death and destruction which is not being very successful in releasing hostages or targeting terrorists.  The hateful talk of right wing settlers in Israel looking forward to having beach front properties in Gaza after this operation feeds this narrative.

     

    This Lavender thing is just more evidence of a "don't care who dies" policy.

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  8. Posted

    I can see international support for him begin to drain away after the murder of the World Central Kitchen aid workers, including three Britons.

     

    I still see no apology from Netanyahu or the IDF. I don't see how, given the aid workers were in clear communication with IDF forces and the logo of the WCK was on the top of the vehicle, repeated drone attacks occurred.

     

    Leave him to Iran.

  9. Posted

    Brian Bethell, bass player with Nine Below Zero, reportedly dead: 

    No hit singles but their album Third Degree made #38 in the UK chart in March 1982.

     

    They played their choon 11 + 11 on the very first episode of The Young Ones, thus being the first musical guests on the show:

     

     

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  10. Posted

    Death notice for former British High Commissioner to Belize, later to Barbados, Gordon Baker: https://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/marketplace/advert/baker-notices_56548

     

    Wiki (mention): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_high_commissioners_of_the_United_Kingdom_to_Belize

    Wiki (mention): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_high_commissioners_of_the_United_Kingdom_to_Barbados

     

    Yeah, I probably wouldn't have mentioned him, except a telegram (remember them?) written by him in 1997 when representing Belize was leaked to The Times. That expressed that there were rumours about Lord Michael Ashcroft's business dealings "cast a shadow over his reputation which ought not to be ignored". That, along with other revelations, caused Ashcroft no end of trouble a wee bit later on leading to him suing and settling with The Times over various reports regarding certain issues which can be read on Ashcroft's Wiki - I have no wish to express them here, obviously.

     

    Anyhow, Baker was caught up inadvertently in that whole thing. 

  14. Posted

    Just now, Ulitzer95 said:

    Oh and btw, a lot of the hereditaries are absolutely skint. Some live in squalor – flats or houses falling apart in disrepair, leaking pipes, damp and rot everywhere. Just because their great grandfather had money and land does not guarantee they do. There's a lot of modern day ignorance about the hereditaries.

    The only group of people our population is more ignorant about is the military, what they do and how they operate. Yet, just like the hereditaries, everyone is quick out the door to give you their strong opinion about them.

    Oh yes indeedy, the stories of hereditaries whose family have gambled or squandered the wealth their ancestors left are rife. I'm not saying they are all in a lovely position, and a lot of property goes into disrepair or is transferred to the State in due course.

     

    But the fact they may have to work a little harder or sell off some family heirlooms to that guy off Salvage Hunters doesn't detract from the fact that these folk get first dibs on all the breaks a Government can give them. Christ, the State will step in and rebuild their properties for them if it were to burn down.

     

    'Mon, we all know how it works.

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  15. Posted

    1 minute ago, Ulitzer95 said:


    So you're saying peoples' mood and behaviour is driven by their social status or income? That's very classist/snobby of you (see how I turned that against you, motor mouth ;)).

    Absolutely I'm saying that. :P

     

    They just have different things to complain about, like their yacht club meeting has been cancelled, or they can't get dinner at The Fat Duck. :lol:

  16. Posted

    4 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:


    That's a bit unfair. Silly name does not = nob. On the contrary, I've always found the hereditary peers are far better people – nicer and wiser – than the crony life peers the HoL is now stuffed with.

    His death means there 249 out of the 666 hereditaries removed in 1999 are still living. New and improved list can be found here. Funny to think that King Charles was one of the hereditaries removed in '99!

    Weeeelllll.

     

    I think it's easy to be nice when you inherit huge landholdings from which you derive a merry income, knowing you'll pass it on to your kids relatively tax free because it is held in trust or by a nominated company. Meanwhile, Mrs Pensioner who got that house when her husband died gets her family smashed with a 40 per cent inheritance tax bill.

     

    No doubt this chap did a lot of good in his area though. Just a pity they have all the privileges with little of the responsibility we all have in our lives. :lol:

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  21. Posted

    3 hours ago, alt obits guy said:

    Jerry Abbott, the father of Pantera drummer Vinnie Paul and 'Dimebag' Darrell Abbott, who outlived both his sons, has died. He was 80. Abbott produced Pantera's first three records. He was also a country music songwriter and record producer.

      

    https://metalinjection.net/this-is-just-a-tribute/jerry-abbott-father-of-dimebag-vinnie-paul-dead-at-80

    Cross-posting news of Jerry Abbot's death here. ;)

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  22. Posted

    25 minutes ago, TQR said:

    Confirming what we already knew about “Levelling Up”:

     

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    Given the results of the last election, this could be a bit misleading. After all, a whole lotta Red Tory seats went Blue Tory last time out.

     

    Nevertheless, Sunak's on record about taking money out of deprived urban areas and moving it to the traditional Tory voting areas.

     

    Not sure what to do with this information, mind.

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