The Retirement Thread

[Tenkaykev]

Morning all. They has been some deep and interesting conversations on here this morning 😀. I try and stay away from commenting on that sort of things on forum as I find it too easy to upset people as I get older. I tend to keep that sort of stuff on fb as it’s much more fun. Oh the good trolling fun one can have on far right or far left fb pages is to die for . When the weather is bad and I am bored it can keep me amused for hours. Anyway no need for digging in the under belly of Facebook today.
The sun is shining, coffee needs drinking , strawberries need picking, a bike needs riding and even Mrs exlaser 2 is happy. So all is good in my little world 😀

I somehow wandered onto Mumsnet once 😯 absolutely Barking 😊

 

[gavroche]

I'm like a coiled spring, coiled, quivering, waiting for the first person to yawp off at me about "white privilege", at which point I can explode with indignant rage and ask them how that helped the 6 million of my white ancestors that were murdered by Hitler.

And the thousands who were deported to work as slaves for the Nazi war machine.

 

[Dirk]

Anyone else get this, we do.

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Wacist! Are you insinuating that only black people steal things?!
#allgroceryitemsmatter
Bloody Tory scum gammon Nazi ya!

 

[Drago]

Hypocrites of the day alert, and very interesting! The Gruinard, who have been calling for all sorts of slavery related statues to be removed, turn out to have themselves been founded using profits from a cotton plantation staffed by slaves. Strangely, they're not calling for themselves to be erased from history.

 

[Dirk]

Hypocrites of the day alert, and very interesting! The Gruinard, who have been calling for all sorts of slavery related statues to be removed, turn out to have themselves been founded using profits from a cotton plantation staffed by slaves. Strangely, they're not calling for themselves to be erased from history.

Ahem.
I refer the honourable gentleman to post #45,178.

 

[Drago]

Oh well. Being late is better than being premature!

 

[screenman]

Wacist! Are you insinuating that only black people steal things?!
#allgroceryitemsmatter
Bloody Tory scum gammon Nazi ya!

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I did not notice the colour, never do.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

I think that France should acknowledge that Joseph-Ignace Guillotin stole his "idea" for the guillotine and claimed it as his own. Also that this minor detail, not taught in France, be rectified immediately. With royalties on the "invention" being paid to the town he stole "his idea" from.

It was called a Maiden in Scotland and was in use from the mid 16th century. It was housed in St Giles Cathedral and brought out into the High Street for use. Amongst its famous clients was the Marquis of Argyll in 1661, sentenced for his part in the Covenanters War. His son was also executed on it, in 1685, for his part in the Monmouth Rebellion.

 

[GM]

I somehow wandered onto Mumsnet once 😯 absolutely Barking 😊

I was googling last week about a certain type of brick, and was linked to a post on Mumsnet of all places. While on on there I thought I'd have a little nose around the other topics, I didn't realise what a sheltered life I've lead, I never knew you could do that with a peach!

 

[12boy]

Having lived on the Navajo Nation as a teen, and having had the responsibility of ensuring good service to the Arapaho and Shoshone Nations for 20 years, I learned prejudice, hatred and corruption are not limited to white people. One of my Arapaho employees who grew up in the little town ofArapahoe said the folks in Ethete, the capitol of the Arapaho Nation, referred to the people in Arapahoe as the "lower Arapaho" and gangs of youths would go the other town in pickup trucks, find someone on the street and beat the crap out of them. As far as the Navajos and Utes as were concerned, every once in a while the body of a Navajo or a Ute would be found on the fence between their reservations. This is in no way intended to excuse the atrocities against the Native Americans in this country. As I've gone through llife, I've learned just about every bias and preconception I've had about other people, good and bad, has been wrong.

 

[PaulSB]

I never knew you could do that with a peach!

Oh come on.........you can't leave it there..........or would it make my leaf curl?? 🤔 Think about that one.

 

[Cavalol]

Hats off to those showing the world how pro-British they are by shouting 'Seig Heil' and doing Nazi salutes at a war memorial today. On their way to protect a statue of Churchill. You've really shown those 'lefties' an example of peaceful, safe distance demonstrations

 

[GM]

Oh come on.........you can't leave it there..........or would it make my leaf curl?? 🤔 Think about that one.

Ha ha...Sorry, it's very very rude, I'd get a life time CC ban if I told you!

 

[classic33]

It was called a Maiden in Scotland and was in use from the mid 16th century. It was housed in St Giles Cathedral and brought out into the High Street for use. Amongst its famous clients was the Marquis of Argyll in 1661, sentenced for his part in the Covenanters War. His son was also executed on it, in 1685, for his part in the Monmouth Rebellion.

Another copy!

He managed to get a local carpenter to build a working model for him. He'd then to flee for his life, with the model, lest he be shown the full size one close up.

Yours was a portable one, hired out to neighbouring areas. A replica* now resides in a museum.

*Or is it?

 

[classic33]

I would guess many institutions have their historical skeletons. It's how we acknowledge these things today that counts. A quick Google for Lord Rothermere will help!

Local museum has two. They used to be on display, but people complained. And now the reside in a cupboard, out of sight.