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Post by Ratty on Jul 25, 2019 12:38:47 GMT
Fingers crossed because a no deal exit might be beneficial for Aussie exports.
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Post by missouriboy on Jul 25, 2019 13:33:32 GMT
Fingers crossed because a no deal exit might be beneficial for Aussie exports. Looter!
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Post by Ratty on Jul 25, 2019 13:55:33 GMT
Fingers crossed because a no deal exit might be beneficial for Aussie exports. Looter! Am not!
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Post by nautonnier on Jul 25, 2019 15:22:05 GMT
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Post by nautonnier on Jul 28, 2019 13:00:25 GMT
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Post by Ratty on Jul 28, 2019 13:36:16 GMT
One small step for man ... .... oops, where was I? PS: Probably won't be paid by the activist, possibly not by anyone. Let's see what happens.
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Post by Ratty on Aug 1, 2019 0:45:37 GMT
My Special K packet says "Made in Australia".
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Post by nautonnier on Aug 1, 2019 7:36:05 GMT
To reuse an old saying about another politician: "There's two things I dislike about Boris Johnson, his face."
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Post by nautonnier on Aug 1, 2019 10:03:31 GMT
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Post by nautonnier on Aug 1, 2019 15:37:09 GMT
Ratty?? A bit of an inside joke for those familiar with cricket.
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Post by Ratty on Aug 1, 2019 21:52:24 GMT
Ratty?? A bit of an inside joke for those familiar with cricket. Careful or I'll take you off my Christmas card list, Mr Nautonnier.
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Post by nonentropic on Aug 1, 2019 23:14:40 GMT
Seems fine now though.
Cricket is a funny game and as a NZer I can say the rules are not always adhered to as per the counting error at the recent 50 over final.
Only a fool counts the Australians as finished so early. Just saying!
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Post by missouriboy on Aug 1, 2019 23:34:02 GMT
The Borderland Celts are Restless. The Welsh have been less vocal in the World press. But is that changing? Are Britains again tired of Saxons and Normans sitting on the throne of the Welsh Princes?
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Post by nautonnier on Aug 2, 2019 6:07:49 GMT
The Borderland Celts are Restless. The Welsh have been less vocal in the World press. But is that changing? Are Britains again tired of Saxons and Normans sitting on the throne of the Welsh Princes? Another remainer video. I had the good fortune to live in North Wales for a couple of years and get to know the real Welsh locals (nothing like rough shooting and dogs to bring people together). Very friendly people contrary to the impression that the media would have you believe. The most 'rabid' Welsh Nationalists in North Wales were usually those that had grown up in Liverpool or Chester and returned back to Wales and a new found identity and language. However, the Welsh in Aberteifi Ceredigion could sometimes have extremes of 'Nationalism' for example insisting that STEM subjects like Mathematics and Chemistry were taught in Welsh and having to invent new words to do so - so was it still Welsh? Further South in Swansea and Neath the area had far greater proportion of English and was not any more nationalistic than Yorkshire or Cornwall (or any other of the old Dukedoms) The Nationalism is occasionally fanned by media and politicians wanting a particular narrative but in reality the boundaries have faded.
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Post by missouriboy on Aug 2, 2019 16:26:29 GMT
The Borderland Celts are Restless. The Welsh have been less vocal in the World press. But is that changing? Are Britains again tired of Saxons and Normans sitting on the throne of the Welsh Princes? Another remainer video. I had the good fortune to live in North Wales for a couple of years and get to know the real Welsh locals (nothing like rough shooting and dogs to bring people together). Very friendly people contrary to the impression that the media would have you believe. The most 'rabid' Welsh Nationalists in North Wales were usually those that had grown up in Liverpool or Chester and returned back to Wales and a new found identity and language. However, the Welsh in Aberteifi Ceredigion could sometimes have extremes of 'Nationalism' for example insisting that STEM subjects like Mathematics and Chemistry were taught in Welsh and having to invent new words to do so - so was it still Welsh? Further South in Swansea and Neath the area had far greater proportion of English and was not any more nationalistic than Yorkshire or Cornwall (or any other of the old Dukedoms) The Nationalism is occasionally fanned by media and politicians wanting a particular narrative but in reality the boundaries have faded. Just before the outbreak of the War for Southern Independence, a South Carolina legislator was asked for his thoughts on secession. He famously answered ... "South Carolina is too small to be a republic, and too large to be an insane asylum". Today, Europe contains 8 states (with specialty names and functions) smaller than Wales's 8,000 sq. miles. In 1860, his comment in regards to a republic may have been largely true. His asylum comment was and is undoubtedly true. Our largest insane asylums are no bigger than 470 sq. miles (New York City and Los Angeles city). For the record, I note that the combined area of England, Scotland and Wales (~91 k sq. mi.) is only 15% larger than the State of Missouri (79 k sq. mi.). Subtract Scotland and that figure is 73%. The air distance from the south coast of Wales to the north is less than the distance from Columbia, MO to St. Louis, MO. Width wise, it is about two MO counties wide. Practically spitting distance. Our own "Little Dixie" area of Central Missouri comprises 6 counties totaling nearly 4000 sq. miles (which was settled largely out of Virginia) ... about half the size of Wales. We also have a Germanic problem to the East (Communist exiles from the German Revolution of 1848), who took the Union side in 1861-65. Much bloody work was done by partisan bands against Union invaders from 3 sides. "No Quarter" was the written operational rules of Union forces from 1863 on. The American collegiate football rivalry between the University of Missouri - Columbia (the Tigers) and the University of Kansas - Lawrence (the Jayhawks) is a more recent cultural event with its roots in the fight for Bloody Kansas. The latter being the only University I know of that named its athletic teams after a terrorist group. From the Celtic perspective, the "Orange Order" might be comparable. As for Wales, we can sympathize ... although our suppression did not span centuries, as we seized control back from the post-war radical Reconstructionists ca 1874 when Francis Marion Cockrell (last commander of the 1st Missouri Confederate Brigade) retook the 2nd US Missouri Senate seat and held it for 5 terms. The typically shortened American temporal perspective. Around here there are still many who can trace ancestry back to the "early days" ... a whole nearly 200 years. How much more so in Wales. where Britains were fighting off Saxons since the 500s. I am assuming they are better schooled in their "long" history than us?
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