kevinjohnsonmbe

A dry brick structure showing 8 courses, poorly aligned on the front face, some form of calcification on the face of the bricks, a noteworthy "pebble" in the centre picture, rounded corners on the bricks possibly indicating reclamation / re-use.... Come on then, is this where the picture opens up and it's an old man's face or a donkey's cock???

Trigger finger.... Gotcha! Wouldn't have thought that way... Divine intervention?

I'm not sure what you mean TVI....? What am I missing (apart from budgies?)

Funny innit.... 1 picture, reposted so many times, and still people seeing things they didn't see last time or seeing things so differently from others that are looking at the same picture...

Bloody lucky break for the cameraman I'd say.... He even got the shadow of a Jihadi gunman hiding in the bushes

(1) And I with them, but let's try and focus on that which we might be able to influence in the future rather than that which (despite some efforts) is indelibly etched into history. (2) It's YOUR assumption that it's a black/white issue (to use a rather clumsy and no doubt inappropriate turn of phrase.) You have sought to make it a black/white issue for reasons best known only to yourself. As illustrated at (1) my unease with cultural divergency is equal to all races - not just the white Anglo Saxon. Perhaps a better example than the one you chose of Native American disadvantage from dominant racial oppression would be that of the Moriori who were EATEN by the Maori and yet it is from within elements of the Maori race that we hear most vocal claims of racial oppression from later white Anglo Saxon incomers.... I love the irony in that one at least they weren't eaten! So you see, I don't suffer from the binary prejudice that you seem to be suggesting. On the contrary, I think YOU do. (3) There are kind of 3 questions there that might best be addressed with a single answer - the further diverged the 2 (or more) cultures that are brought together, the greater the potential for friction. I've said before, a re-united Ireland seems an entirely sensible prospect to me (but I heavily caveat that with the note, and the greatest of respect, that I am not of a group that has particularly strong feelings on the matter whilst recognising that others do.) (4) See (3) (5) Turn your telescope around......

Difficult to disagree with you! You seem to be affirming all the points I presented on the difficulties of cultural re-location....? (whilst attempting to present a racist slant which actually highlights YOUR lack of understanding....)

Fair one...... I can relate to that.... I can drop her name off the list since she fits into both of the group categories anyway!!

This could take some time but I'll restrict myself to 3 named individuals and 2 of the main groups of their support base: Jeremy Corbyn John McDonnell Dianne Abbot All of the membership of Momentum The mentally impaired....

You're starting premise, whilst seemingly noble and humanitarian, is wholly flawed. Not only is it fundamentally flawed, but clinging to it, despite the weight of evidence (not from what is casually labelled as "far right extremists" by certain elements in a lame attempt to discredit the logic, but also by political, intellectual and (tellingly) EM / immigrant 'big hitters') is, ironically, facilitating and perpetuating the very conditions which place vulnerable populations into desperate situations. There is no solution to be found in the uncontrolled re-locating of historically, culturally and religiously incompatible peoples from one region - with unique geography, climate, socio-economic, cultural, spiritual blah, blah, blah.... into another which is so far removed from the known norm as to be akin to dropping them on the moon. That's an opinion rather than a fact. Only a blind man (or someone with unbelievable naivety from the comfort of their suburban idyll and who had never visited Bradford would disagree however.) Importing asylum seekers into a country which is so far removed from their norm is frankly cruel to them and dangerous to the receiving country. Compare the rules / regs for adoption - the suitability and compatibility checks that need to be fulfilled. That's not to say the 'world' (which translates to the Western world) shouldn't 'feel' like there might be a moral imperative to try to act in the case of great human suffering.... But it's the HOW that matters. Assistance should take the form of in-country (or adjacent country / regional) aid, always with the end-state aspiration to resettle into the original country, rather than relocating a pitiful number into a wholly unfamiliar environment and expect them to stabilise and integrate. Now that, I found genuinely funny.... (ironically) in a cross between a Frankie Boylesque, harsh, cut-to-the-bone, satirical fashion merged with a Basil Fawlty / 'Allo 'Allo stylie.....

All the power but less volume / mass of a GSD. It's an excellent working breed...

Beauties Gary! This boy saw his first snow today... If it’s clear enough, we’re picking his ½ sister up over the weekend - it has been decided (not that I had much input) since things are starting to calm down at home, We’ll have a new puppy! Been talking names, my suggestions of (1) Brexit (2) Blondie were shitcanned early on... ?

Delivered with a characteristic light touch Marcus!

That's deep man....

On that we can certainly agree and celebrate!!

No politics.... (honest) The example of JRM and his investment portfolio is perhaps not the best to illustrate the point I wanted to make (since he probably does have greater ability to influence, and knowledge of, where his investments go - unlike the general population...) The point being, I tried, at a recent investment event to make the "city w⚓︎" describe exactly how, where and which companies the portfolios he was attempting to punt would be invested.... I also tried to tie him down on 'ethical' portfolios... He was more slippery than a slippery thing - truth be told, I just don't think he knew (or particularly cared) where the money, once the punters had committed it, actually ended up.... And so I concluded that it's entirely possible that we all have money doing great evil around the world, with our total, ignorant, complicity - not just JRM.

Nah, there MUST be some positive aspects to Chelmsford ??? BB on the other hand.....

Billy Bragg, pleeeeeease say you’re having a giraffe! ??

me too....! I know where it’s NOT, it’s not where it should be with looming deadlines....

I’ve seen it used, but didn’t know, or have the inclination to look-up what SJW actually meant (done it now) and the good news is YES! You would still qualify as a SJW if the injustice you were warrioringinging against, was the social injustice of the flagellating the poor, honest, hard working man under the crushing burden of centrally imposed taxation which is frittered away on the feckless, the idle and the immobile (and Jonny Foreigner of course!) We can be warriors together! Brothers in arms!!

Just have one! It's better than paying tax!!

That wasn't what I was intimating... Probably more that, since we aren't, those that are are making a fine horses ass of it... Careful what you wish for, you might just get it It was more a (rather tired) reflection on the current, apparent, tendency (in certain 1/4s) to attempt, on the one hand, to criticise that which we don't have the ability to change and on the other, to wish to somehow re-write history so as only to record those bits that support an anti-imperialist record. It's not restricted to single issues mind. Whilst doing a ceremonial Oak planting at the nippers school a couple of weekends back, one of the teachers read a poem which referred to the historic use of English Oak and the men that built the ships that made for a great nation.... The reader 'corrected' herself and said "perhaps I should say 'men and women that built the ships...' Well, no actually, it WOULD have been men NOT men and women - at that point in time. Ridiculous to seek to re-write history based upon today's standards...

Let it go Mr Egg, read a book! Justme knows his onions! Get a new van and be done with it....

Great shame.... The dependents of those terribly mistreated and exploited indigenous peoples are very quick to condemn, at every turn, the heinous crimes of the Empire - as exampled by Abeera Kamran; artivist, Aliyah Hasinah; writer, Mariam Khan; cultural activist, Sara Myers; textile designer, Shaheen Kasmani, writer and researcher Sumaya Kassim in their museum exhibition: The Past is Now - Birmingham’s relationship to the British Empire. http://www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/bmag/whats-on/the-past-is-now-birmingham-and-the-british-empire Whilst simultaneously seeming to gloss over the fact that their very existence, their current country of residence, and their ability to express their criticism is a demonstrable example of the positive consequences of post Empire. Similarly, I wonder if Sheku Kannech-Mason's BAFTA BBC Young Musician of the Year award for his recital of Bach's Cello Suite No.1 in G major would have carried quite the same impact if he'd used a goat skin drum? I'm guessing no.... At least, post Empire, we have the exemplar scenarios of sound governance, social stability, peace, prosperity and economic growth in those former colonies.... Oh no, we don't do we.....