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@anc wrote:
oooooooerrrrrrr – su, ya gotta learn not to……………….bite! :lol:
Ignore anc su, I’ll let you bite
. . . . . . . but it’s just coffee, honest!
@mrs_teapot wrote:
I have been watching the press conference in Norway about the attacks on a youth camp in Oslo. I know its too early to know exactly what happened but so far 87 confirmed dead. One account said the killer was dressed in a Nazi type uniform and was just killing people randomly.
Terrible pictures and accounts of what happened are simply sickening. Extremism is so dangerous yet as a society we accept free speech even when it threatens our society and existence. Indeed even on these boards we tolerate extreme views.
Should we be so tolerant? seems to me if you take the middle ground as most of us do… we are just waiting for the next attack. Do we just accept that living in a democracy its what we HAVE to put up with.
Our Quality of life is being abused and attacked… is there a solution?
This morning’s bulletins seem to be saying that the murderer was wearing a police-style outfit to blag his way around the island unchallenged and was even calling young people over and then shooting them. I wonder why he chose that particular youth camp.
The “middle ground” is not a static position, to be adhered to passively, but an active position of principle, to be defined, defended and promoted. Free speech is not just a product or symptom of a free society, it is necessary for its preservation. But it needs to be used by the whole of that society, not just by the extremists.
It is interesting how often when an extreme or abusive opinion is expressed in JC, that if someone speaks against it there are always those who will put far more energy into criticising the challenger than into opposing the extremist. As if rocking the boat is worse than trying to pull it under!
@anc wrote:
@Wordsworth50 wrote:
@anc wrote:
@Wordsworth50 wrote:
@anc wrote:
@Wordsworth50 wrote:
Everyone should moisturise!
Does it work for you?! (giggling) :lol:
I’m 93 y’no!
And I don’t know if it works because I daren’t stop to see what I’d look like without it!
Well, you wouldn’t be able to pee if it didn’t work! :lol:
Yer nuts y’are!
I knows, that’s why ya lubs me! :D
Ah! Chat Lub!
@anc wrote:
@Wordsworth50 wrote:
@anc wrote:
@Wordsworth50 wrote:
Everyone should moisturise!
Does it work for you?! (giggling) :lol:
I’m 93 y’no!
And I don’t know if it works because I daren’t stop to see what I’d look like without it!
Well, you wouldn’t be able to pee if it didn’t work! :lol:
Yer nuts y’are!
@janus wrote:
Wonder how the day went. Anyone want to tell us?
Cath55 started the thread, give her a chance to sleep off her hangover and kick the best man out of bed and I guess she’ll post something as soon as she gets back in front of a PC screen (lol).
@anc wrote:
@Wordsworth50 wrote:
Everyone should moisturise!
Does it work for you?! (giggling) :lol:
I’m 93 y’no!
And I don’t know if it works because I daren’t stop to see what I’d look like without it!
@thin ice wrote:
@Wordsworth50 wrote:
Growing old is better than dying young, Growing up is better than staying childish, Growing boring is unnecessary and undesirable . . . .
yep but you got there
But every time I get there, you raise the bar Thin, I just can’t compete with your banter!
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
I’ve just made myself a pot of tea, with loose tea and boiling water in a proper little teapot. Nostalgia ain’t just a thing of the past y’no . . . .
Growing old is better than dying young, Growing up is better than staying childish, Growing boring is unnecessary and undesirable . . . .
