It’s his birthday and he’s spending it with one twitter rant after the other
Outstanding :clap:
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It’s his birthday and he’s spending it with one twitter rant after the other
Outstanding :clap:
It's his birthday as well as Bruce Springsteen's AND Floella Benjamin's?Quote:
Originally Posted by Tony C
In fact, Floella and Bruce are both 70 today. There's odd, eh?
Ooh, ooh, what are the subjects of his ire today? I'm going to guess Boris, Tom Watson, The UK in general, Leave voters.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tony C
I quickly took a look, saw 'I'm comparing the British Empire and the Nazis in terms of death toll' and clicked away.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tony C
That argument was nonsense when he peddled it on here and it's still fúcking nonsense.
Has he mentioned how he's going to get his staff down to a 4 day week on the same pay yet?Quote:
Originally Posted by Tony C
Also, he seems to have come out in favour of paying reparations for 'our' colonial past.Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
'Our'? I thought he was Irish? :rubchin:
What's his twitter address?Quote:
Originally Posted by Tony C
Reparations, FFS.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
My stupid* Great, Great Grandfather sold of 7/8ths of Farnham for pretty much sod all, I'd like that back
*he wasn't at all
Do we get any money back for the blood and treasure we spent stamping out slavery around the globe?Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
And do we get back any money from the Frogs, Danes, Krauts and Wops for their invasions and colonisation of us?
@smuggerthanowenjonesQuote:
Originally Posted by Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult
No, because we are uniquely evil in the history of the globe, see? Never mind the fact that ours was by some distance the most benign empire the world has ever seen, we're evil. EVIL!Quote:
Originally Posted by Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult
There is a fantastically evil rail network in Sri Lanka that popped out of nowhere just at the same time the Brits were in Ceylon.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
As part of these reparations do the British have to dismantle this?
Oddly, the Sri Lankan rail netowrk is traditionally heavily staffed by Burghers - that is to say Sri Lankans of Dutch descent.Quote:
Originally Posted by IUFG
Heavily staffed?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Is that why most of the passengers are clinging to the outside of the carriages?
I enjoyed a wonderful train ride from Kandy to Ella once. I sat inside, as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by IUFG
I did Colombo to Galle and Colombo to Kandy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Lovely views. Smelled bad.
FACT - locomotive #591 Manitoba was carried 100m inland by the tsunami in 2004?
I trust the tea service was up to civilised standards?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
That's a nice fact there i :thumbup:Quote:
Originally Posted by IUFG
I've always liked the sound of Kandy, but always wonder why they named an inexpensive brand of white goods after it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
it is indeed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
I assume those shanty towns either side of the railway lines were obliterated by it. :-(
Temple of the Buddha's Tooth. Nice.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
I ate a chinese meal in Kandy once. That was an odd experience.
Balls in gloop?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Lovely botanical gardens, b. Temple of the Tooth, etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
The beer is shÃ*t, of course...
No, it's just the way these trousers bunch up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
I have an entirely irrational dislike of the phrase 'Botanical Gardens'. I think it's because my folks took me to the one in Dublin when I was little and I'd got it into my head that it was basically a zoo. When I got there, no tigers, no gorillas, not even a reptile house. Just fúcking plants!Quote:
Originally Posted by IUFG
I kicked off.
:clap: I was thinking 'Well it was rather warm', but that's equally good.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
I'm guessing the one in Dublin wouldn't measure up to the one in Kandy, b.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
But yes, just plants and trees...
At least out there I suppose there's a chance a tiger or a monkey or something might at least wander in and alleviate the floral tedium.Quote:
Originally Posted by IUFG
Also in Kandy I wandered into the grounds of an Anglican church and encountered the chap who looks after the graves of our brave colonial administrators, many gathered unto God at a young age. Now this chap performs sterling work tendin the cemetary, speaks excellent English and was delighted to show us around and let us look into the burial record books and so on. He even made us tea. What was mildly disconcerting was that he was about 108 years old, had o9ne single tooth in his head, and wore nothing but a dhoti. It was like talking to an incredibly ancient baby.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
There will always be a few fighting monkeys rolling around the floor there :nod:Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
A bit like Temple Bar, really
Did he smell like a badger? :-\Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
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Originally Posted by Burney
I suppose a lack of sanitation, constant 30+ degree heat and 90-odd percent humidity takes its toll on ones body odour.
He didn't. Actually I wonder if i will back me up here... in the Temple of the Tooth there were about 600 million Sri Lankans jammed into a room the size of a large cupboard, with the temperature about 900 degrees, and as I stood jammed absolutely immobile amidst this mass of humanity, it struck me that there was absolutely no overwhelming reek of sweaty armpits, which one would expect ina lmost any other 'developing country'. Perhaps Sri Lankans don't sweat so bad.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
wd Lankans imo. Now I think about it, the ones I've played cricket with have been reasonably fragrant, too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Some of the Indian lads, though. :yikes:
That has certainly been my experience of the Tube this summer.Quote:
Originally Posted by IUFG
When you don't notice it, you don't notice. But there were some that ****ing reeked. Usually those doing the manual labour stuff.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Still not as bad as a bloke who cycled past me in Dubai. I could smell his vapour trail for a good 100 yards...
Yes, I remember a chap in Kenya during the rains. His chosen outfit of shorts, wellies and mac must have been in situ for a long, long time, for he exuded a smell which quite boggled the mind. And that was before my nosejob!Quote:
Originally Posted by IUFG
The worst I've encountered was a tramp on the Paris Metro. You could literally smell him 30 seconds before you saw him. He just lurched out of the shadows with his hand out and you immediately gave him whatever was in your pocket to stop yourself gagging.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
He's probably a millionaire.
****in right, where's my reparations for the firm I did printing for that never paid?Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
"You have stolen my dreams and my childhood," was it? :-(
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Originally Posted by Tony C