Posts by foxfeeder

  • Are political threads allowed?

    Quote from CountingOutTime

    Yes, I knew of this. He also lied to the world (for the millionth time) when he claimed to have been awarded the Nobel Peace prize...twice!!. He released a hack video of himself on a White House balcony with the Nobel committee. Over the video, he had photo-shopped the Nobel Peace Prize. It's unbelievable that this clown of a man is actually preparing to run for President in 2024. The January 6th committee needs to step up the pace and get this guy incarcerated.

    Here's hoping they do, but sadly, betting they won't. :(

  • Female Voices

    Kirsty McColl's "In these Shoes?" is superb, and Nazareth's version of Joni's "This Flight Tonight" (Very much NOT a female voice! :)) is brilliant too.

  • I love Kate Bush!

    Quote from chema

    as you all may know, running up that hill has recently become a worldwide hit, thanks to 'stranger things' series.


    kate's albums were ahead of her time, specially 'the dreaming' and 'hounds of love'. not many songs from the eighties would be hits nowadays if they were re-released.


    perhaps take on me by a-ha could be a hit again. i can think of at least two recent chart-toppers that are clearly based on take on me. :/

    The Weeknd's Blinding Lights being one, I guess?

  • The Thread Of Complete Randomness

    Quote from NoSonOfVine

    Well done lionesses (not a football fan but even so!)

    Indeed! They played superbly, and showed their male counterparts how to do it. The 1st goal in the semi-final was perfectly executed, with calmness and focus. Probably one of the very best goals I've ever seen, from a technical point of view. Not as memorable as the second, perhaps........ :/


    There's talk of women's football now having wages etc in line with men's. As it should be, BUT I hope it includes dragging men's wages down to a more sensible level than it is now. It's not just the stupidity of the amounts, per-se, it's the fact that it promotes the sort of arrogant, entitled behaviour we have all witnessed to often, and it draws into question their commitment, given that they don't really have to play 100% to still rake it in.

  • Are political threads allowed?

    Quote from thefarmer

    The tourism argument.

    It's absolutely understandable that the vast majority of Brits believe that tourism revenue is a positive side effect of of our royal family as it's what we are constantly told. Alongside the fib about hard working royals. It stands to reason doesn't it? We are all better off for maintaining them in their opulence. Here is 12 minute video that blows this myth out of the water. I really urge you all to watch it. I cannot see how anyone with an open mind could still believe in this lie after seeing this.


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    Well, that was massively convincing!


    Apart from the slightly creepy "presenter" and his obviously massively biased youtube channel, there's the lack of any hard evidence based (One of his oft used phrases being "little evidence", which works both ways) "facts", he just lectures us on what he thinks. Convincing? I think not. Certainly, as I thought, there's talk of the monarchy costing us millions, and tourism being billions, but there's a couple of other points worth noting:


    Chester Zoo: the "tourism" quoted is almost all domestic. The ratio of brits to foreigners in there is very much on the Brits side. same may be true of many other "top attractions" Many overseas visitors probably live amongst some of the zoos occupants cousins!


    Happiness: Republicans are all so miserable. Do I want to be like them? No thanks. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a raving-Royalist, and I certainly agree that a lot of the hangers-on should be disenfranchised (as they have in recent years) but do I rather have the UK as a unique place. Yes.

  • I love Kate Bush!

    There was a clip of a reporter talking outside the Liverpool Empire, her first ever official gig. Which I was at! 8)


    Just sayin'!


    (For all those who hate me already!) :evil:

  • Are political threads allowed?

    Quote from thefarmer

    Just to be clear I don't advocate a U.S style presidency and I don't know any republicans who do. It is not a choice between an inherited monarchy and US democracy. There's lots of choices. I said the US is better than ours to demonstrate how bad out system is. Remember PM has a lot more power within this country than the US president has in his. The U.S president has to get past 2 houses and supreme court , but our PM has unrestricted power. The Lords is ineffectual and the Queen does what she is told , maintaining a dignified silence!! And our PM who is also our president in all but name is ALWAYS put in position by less than 50% of the voters because British president is there by having majority MPs. I do like having our ruling executive being derived from parliament but our voting system is naff and there should be some check on the PMs power. (Just look at what BJ tried to do about suspending parliament just after he got in before the general election . He had a tiny majority with a number of pro Europe Tories. And Queen said OK! She had to.) Surely we can have a better system than this.

    You think that's better? I'd say it's much, much worse. US Pres can achieve almost nothing (A good thing when Trump was in!) but generally that's a big disadvantage. The current gun laws/abortion debates are proving that.

  • Are political threads allowed?

    Quote from Backdrifter

    Blimey, that's a bit much. Don't be sarcastic, if you think I'm talking bollocks look it up and correct me. From memory, the top attractions tend to be the British Museum, Tate Modern, Kew Gardens and Chester Zoo. I might be wrongly remembering or I had bad sources. But hey, maybe loads of tourists visit Chester in the hope of seeing the Cambridges wandering around Mongoose Mania.

    Well, they certainly come to Chester to visit lots of local ancient buildings, etc. (We have restaurants here older than the USA!) But yes, I think it's nonsense, the royals and their building cost millions, tourism rakes in billions, and much of it is in part driven by interest in Royal connected stuff. IE/ people might not come here JUST for that, but it's an added spur, which, if missing, might mean they'd go somewhere else.


    Also, having mooted us adopting a US presidential elected leader, and that being deemed a bad move, we now seem to be suggesting deposing the Royals as the answer to all our problems. Yeah, that sure worked out well for Russia! I wonder how development of the all-electric Lada Riva is coming along! :)


    Is it a bit much, though? And am I not free to use sarcasm if I choose? I must be forgetting my place!

  • Are political threads allowed?

    Quote from Backdrifter

    It also costs a shitload of money, and the tourism income is always over-emphasised as a benefit. The top tourist attractions in the UK aren't monarchy-related and those that are will still be there if the royal family weren't.


    The world stage kudos thing is more nebulous but does have something to it.

    Oh, OK, I'll take that as a fact then. And Covid isn't real. And Donald Trump was right about everything. :rolleyes:

  • Are political threads allowed?

    Quote from thefarmer

    There is absolutely no reason to maintain this farcical circus of a Royal Family.

    Except perhaps the income it generates from tourism, the kudos it brings on the world stage (Money can't buy you happiness, it can't buy you history either.) And moaning about the Monarch being head of state is a bit pointless when we are discussing how we choose who to run the country, for it isn't in any way the monarch. However we choose the PM, it is them, like it or not. Agree about reforming the House of Lords though, that is a farce, esp. when some of them don't even live here, just jet in to vote on things that don't affect them (no doubt claiming it on expenses.)