Bassingbourne55

@Bassingbourne55 wrote:

I was once told by an elderly and confused person that in the small hospital they’d been in, ‘mysterious foreigners’ held a sort of party in or near the ward in the middle of the night, and this happened more than once. One could put this down to hallucinations or possibly a misreading of a perfectly normal gathering.…

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@Bassingbourne55 wrote:

I always thought devolution was good, but independence bad. But the SNP-led Scottish govenrment has brought shame on Scotland and embarrassment to Great Britain. If the Westminster government has the power to dismiss the current Scottish government, which is really a glorified form of local government that we, in England,…

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Anyone who isn’t on their MSN is “not welcome” on JC and thus must be abused, hounded and bullied until they stop expressing their opinions, stop posting and/or leave.

I’ve been on JC for years and I’m not on anyone’s MSN or any other messaging and I’m not in a clique and I’ve never had any problems. A few battles, yes, but…

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@Bassingbourne55 wrote:

Wind power is not inefficient since the ‘fuel’, i.e. wind, is free. The efficiency comes in designing the turbines capture as much of the wind energy as possible and converting it to electrical energy.

The wind energy policy recognises the fact that the wind is inconsistent. The expected total average output from the…

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@Bassingbourne55 wrote:

It’s not climate change we should be worrying about, but rather what we do when the oil and gas runs out. But the solution to both problems is the same – a combination of renewable energy and energy savings.

It is planned that Britain will be producing between 35% and 45% of its electricity from wind power by 2020. The…

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@Bassingbourne55 wrote:

Great idea Bas …….. if you could find a property developer stupid enough to want to build new houses right now.

Britain’s biggest housebuilder, Taylor-Wimpey, has just started building 70 new homes in my town. But it’s probably a ‘what the heck’ situation as they are on the verge of going bust!

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@Bassingbourne55 wrote:

Further evidence of my theory posted above, fresh from the BBC News website – Tory MP Damien Green says he was told by police he could face life imprisonment if convicted of leaking government secret.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8003534.stm

’tis madness.

Everybody has these stories of over-reaction. Last week…[Read more]

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@Bassingbourne55 wrote:

British, always British. The island we live on is called Great Britain and it is one nation.
Great Britain should never be split up. The UK (which includes northern Ireland as well as Great Britain) is a different matter – N.Ireland should remain in the UK while the majority of its…

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@Bassingbourne55 wrote:

British, always British. The island we live on is called Great Britain and it is one nation.
Great Britain should never be split up. The UK (which includes northern Ireland as well as Great Britain) is a different matter – N.Ireland should remain in the UK while the majority of its population wish to stay. If the majority…

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@Bassingbourne55 wrote:

Are we allowed to call ourselves white trash?

You can call yourself whatever you want, as long as no-one else call you it……(see nicknames thread)

@Bassingbourne55 wrote:

I see old Jugears is in trouble too now for calling a member of his polo team Sooty!
That takes the biscuit (Duchy, of course!). We need to Sweep this under the carpet before someone decides to Sue.

Ooooh I say – “Jugears” sorry that’s offensive !!! :lol:

The word so say used by Harry is offensive by anyone’s standard,…[Read more]

@Bassingbourne55 wrote:

As far as I remember, the term ‘Brit’ was popularised as a derogatory term by republican activists in Northern Ireland. As such, is it not an offensive term?

Would that be the same “Brit” as in Brit Awards; or would it be a short form of “Britney” as in Brit Houston; or is it in fact a contraction of “British expatriates”…[Read more]

@Bassingbourne55 wrote:

Your right!!!!
That man is a danger ready to happen ffs!

Since when has dressing eccentrically been an offence?

I wouldn’t call it dressing eccentrically, i’d call it perverse!! :twisted:

@Bassingbourne55 wrote:

We had the jack from our beach boules set stolen by a seagull. The same seagull had stolen another jack from someone else who was playing boules the previous day – we saw that happen too!

blimey… how much do they weigh?!

@Bassingbourne55 wrote:

When I was about 8 or 9, in the 1960’s, we had an overtly racist teacher who had previously been a PE instructor in the Army. We had two boys on an exchange visit from Kenya. This teacher overtly told us (when the Kenyan boys were not in the room) that he hated blacks and didn’t see why he should be nice to them. Mocking…

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@Bassingbourne55 wrote:

Religion should be treated the same as politics. Religion should not be beyond criticism, and now that the blasphemy law that protected Christianity and (I think, Judaism) has been repealed, it’s open season for shooting down religious myths.

There is so much to criticise about religion as a whole and individual religions…

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@Bassingbourne55 wrote:

It takes weeks and often months, to build a bio-diesel processor and one has to deal with the legalities of tax and waste refuse certification.

Or spend £975 on one of these:
http://www.etruk.com/attachments/Image/etruk50mk2.jpg

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@Bassingbourne55 wrote:

A heroic act. But did he reckon he was likely to die alongside his mates anyway and so in the limited time available he made the split second decision? Was this a ‘well, there’s nothing to lose by giving this a try’ situation? However, he deserves the commendation for bravery and lateral thinking.

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@Bassingbourne55 wrote:

If people waste less food, then, in turn, they’ll buy less in the first place and that will only add to the gathering pace of the recession. I thought Brown knew a bit about economics!!!

No not really.. less demand puts down prices giving you more money to spend elsewhere in the economy other than the food industry, I…[Read more]

@Bassingbourne55 wrote:

Another thing I’ve noticed for some time is that the older generation – I suppose I mean the elderly – 70+, have a tendency to stop and chat to people a lot more than my generation or below. It’s not just that they are older, they did this when they were younger too. My parents, in-laws and grandparents would strike up…

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