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Author:  Cras [ Thu Dec 22, 2011 13:06 ]
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Mr Christmassyfur wrote:
Plissken clearly wasn't suggesting that it would, so your response is apropos nothing.


Makes your 8-odd replies to it since a little redundant then, doesn't it? ;)

Author:  MrChris [ Thu Dec 22, 2011 13:07 ]
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Craster wrote:
Mr Christmassyfur wrote:
Plissken clearly wasn't suggesting that it would, so your response is apropos nothing.


Makes your 8-odd replies to it since a little redundant then, doesn't it? ;)

Not really, no. There's never any redundancy in pointing out that you're a dunderhead, as some things bear repeating. :)

Author:  GovernmentYard [ Thu Dec 22, 2011 13:07 ]
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Oh fuck Forums, I wrote the below in response to a post I can't even find now. Hate that. Anyway...

Exactly. Plus, there's little point in debating the crone, and this isn't the thread for it in any case. She'll be dead soon, loads of people will have a really good night out as a result, a handful of people will complain about it, probably on Twitter, and then everything will go normal.

Possibly. Possibly some people will stop thinking of the horrendous conditions they've spent their lives living in as being the fault of a living person and focus more upon what they will do to get themselves out of their situation. That's her great irony really, looking at the entirety of the 'no society' interview - she's worsened the problem by a huge degree, over what is coming up on four generations now. She did the usual Tory thing of bulldozing their way to an ideal without accepting the plain and horrible truth that some elements simply will not cope or move towards independence without state intervention and if you try to encourage them by simply removing support, they just become substantially greater and more costly problems to be addressed, which is usually by an incoming Labour government throwing pretend money at everything that looks appropriate. Then the Tories come along again and hack the bloated but functioning systems to shreds and we rinse, repeat.

She was supposed to be cleverer than that. She certainly believed she was. Facile politics, brashly practiced.

Author:  Cras [ Thu Dec 22, 2011 13:09 ]
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GovernmentYard wrote:
Oh fuck Forums, I wrote the below in response to a post I can't even find now. Hate that. Anyway...

Exactly. Plus, there's little point in debating the crone, and this isn't the thread for it in any case. She'll be dead soon, loads of people will have a really good night out as a result, a handful of people will complain about it, probably on Twitter, and then everything will go normal.

Possibly. Possibly some people will stop thinking of the horrendous conditions they've spent their lives living in as being the fault of a living person and focus more upon what they will do to get themselves out of their situation. That's her great irony really, looking at the entirety of the 'no society' interview - she's worsened the problem by a huge degree, over what is coming up on four generations now. She did the usual Tory thing of bulldozing their way to an ideal without accepting the plain and horrible truth that some elements simply will not cope or move towards independence without state intervention and if you try to encourage them by simply removing support, they just become substantially greater and more costly problems to be addressed, which is usually by an incoming Labour government throwing pretend money at everything that looks appropriate. Then the Tories come along again and hack the bloated but functioning systems to shreds and we rinse, repeat.

She was supposed to be cleverer than that. She certainly believed she was. Facile politics, brashly practiced.


Agree with all of that.

Author:  Zardoz [ Thu Dec 22, 2011 13:13 ]
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You should get her moulded for your Fleshlight while you can, Craster.

Author:  Cras [ Thu Dec 22, 2011 13:15 ]
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Zardoz wrote:
You should get her moulded for your Fleshlight while you can, Craster.


Thought about it. Went for Mark Thatcher's gob instead.

Author:  Grim... [ Thu Dec 22, 2011 13:17 ]
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myps pies wrote:
Indeed. She'll become some kind of martyr figure. *shudder*

Well, she did invent ice cream vans.

Sort of.

Author:  Plissken [ Thu Dec 22, 2011 15:28 ]
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Craster wrote:
Thought about it. Went for Mark Thatcher's gob instead.


It occurred to me that when someone has a go at the recently dead, someone pipes up with "Look, someone just lost a parent". And then you realise in this particular instance the people who have just lost a parent are someone with no sense of direction who tried to illegally overthrow an African government and his sister, who appeared on TV and ate kangaroo testicles.

Quote:
In 2007, Carol Thatcher travelled to the Falkland Islands and Argentina for the documentary Mummy's War, in order to explore the legacy of the Falklands War. Whilst receiving a highly positive reception from the pro-British islanders (who regard her mother as a heroine), her reception in Argentina provoked protests and demonstrations (including the cry "your mother is a war criminal!"). During her stay in Argentina she met a group of mothers who lost their sons during the conflict and stated, "We were fighting a war; we won, you lost" and reminding them that it was their country that invaded the islands, thus initiating the conflict.


Clearly inherited the family talent for diplomacy, there.

Author:  MrChris [ Thu Dec 22, 2011 15:33 ]
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PlissKringle wrote:
Quote:
In 2007, Carol Thatcher travelled to the Falkland Islands and Argentina for the documentary Mummy's War, in order to explore the legacy of the Falklands War. Whilst receiving a highly positive reception from the pro-British islanders (who regard her mother as a heroine), her reception in Argentina provoked protests and demonstrations (including the cry "your mother is a war criminal!"). During her stay in Argentina she met a group of mothers who lost their sons during the conflict and stated, "We were fighting a war; we won, you lost" and reminding them that it was their country that invaded the islands, thus initiating the conflict.


Clearly inherited the family talent for diplomacy, there.

Much as I dislike Carol Thatcher, technically she was right, of course.

Author:  Plissken [ Thu Dec 22, 2011 15:35 ]
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I don't deny she was technically right, but staggeringly tactless.

But hey, its Carol Thatcher.

Author:  Squirt [ Thu Dec 22, 2011 15:38 ]
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Reagan has been sort-of beatified by a section of the USA right, as far as I can see, being elevated to some sort of low-tax, small-state hero that they can point to, and for whom being dead is a useful way to deflect some criticism. Whether he'd have agreed with Palin or Huckabee is not really the point, the can claim he would have and he can't stand up and call them all a bunch of blithering half-wits.

You can blame a lot of stuff on Thatcher, but calling her a war criminal over the Falklands is taking it a fair chunk too far.

Author:  Plissken [ Thu Dec 22, 2011 15:39 ]
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For clarity, I'm not calling Thatcher a war criminal.

Author:  Trooper [ Thu Dec 22, 2011 15:42 ]
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The problem I have with all the Thatcher hating, is that it always seems to be conveniently forgotten what an absolute state the country was in before she did something.
Did she go too far? Almost certainly. What would the country be like now if she hadn't stepped in a done something? No idea, but I suspect it wouldn't be all fluffy bunnies and rose petals...

Author:  MrChris [ Thu Dec 22, 2011 15:43 ]
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PlissKringle wrote:
For clarity, I'm not calling Thatcher a war criminal.

I'm sure the Argentinians weren't either.

I don't know how the conversation went, of course, but I can well imagine that Carol's statement was in response to something to that effect.

Author:  Kern [ Sun Jan 01, 2012 10:57 ]
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The Reaper's 2011 harvest garnered me a mighty 2 points in 2011! Gaddafi and A** W********

Author:  myp [ Mon Dec 11, 2017 17:14 ]
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Keith Chegwin. :(

Author:  Grim... [ Mon Dec 11, 2017 17:16 ]
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Giphy "not sure if serious":
https://media0.giphy.com/media/yvEwUWxX2rra/giphy-loop.mp4

Author:  DavPaz [ Mon Dec 11, 2017 17:17 ]
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We do seem to have a number of Dead Threads on the go.

Author:  TheVision [ Mon Dec 11, 2017 17:18 ]
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If only there was some way to tell one from another? Perhaps if they were all labelled with the year they relate to? That might help.

Author:  LewieP [ Mon Dec 11, 2017 17:30 ]
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DavPaz wrote:
We do seem to have a number of Dead Threads on the go.

Time for a Celebrity Deathlist Thread Deathlist Thread.

Author:  Grim... [ Mon Dec 11, 2017 17:31 ]
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I know something else that might help.

Author:  Cras [ Mon Dec 11, 2017 19:22 ]
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DavPaz wrote:
We do seem to have a number of Dead Threads on the go.


We don't, people are just searching for them and then bumping without actually reading them. This one specifically us just myp being a twat.

Author:  Grim... [ Mon Dec 11, 2017 23:47 ]
Post subject:  Re: Celebrity Deathlist 2011

Cras wrote:
DavPaz wrote:
We do seem to have a number of Dead Threads on the go.


We don't, people are just searching for them and then bumping without actually reading them. This one specifically us just myp being a twat.

It's locked, you twat.

Author:  Cras [ Tue Dec 12, 2017 0:06 ]
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Well I didn't know that, did I?

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