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Ken
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7 hours ago, alittlebitfrench said:
What a load of tosh you have just written.
The riots are all over France. North, South, East, West…they are happening in all major cities. And a lot in rual towns. And don’t think for one minute that kids are not travelling from rural areas to the city areas to join in.
It is not reported in French news, but there are burt out cars and buses littering the streets of Tours. A commercial centre was burt down also. Montargis (rural ville in 45) was badly hit.
And if you don’t think it effects everyone in France including yourself, think again. These riots will cost billions the taxpayer.
'It is not reported in French news, but there are burt out cars and buses littering the streets of Tours. A commercial centre was burt down also. Montargis (rural ville in 45) was badly hit.'
So you are privy to what is going on? Yes it will cost a lot. As for every major city, well perhaps your geography need adjusting! And no, it doesn't affect me. You have an agenda, what is it?
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12 hours ago, betise said:
I was going to ask that, if Ken watches the French news.
15 hours ago, alittlebitfrench said:Things like….France has become a very violent country. The police forces are law to themselves. The French education system is designed to make kids bored.
Seen the news today Ken ?
Btw…we had few cars, a bus, few shops burnt down last night. Urban fighting with the police.
Of course. Over 2000 cars burnt, nearly a thousand properties damaged several Maries and Police stations destroyed, Bus stations burned and destroyed, the list is endless. yes, I have seen the news. I was waiting for your post. You seem to have a supporter in Betise too!
There are many things wrong with policing in France and I have been critical in the past. What is happening now isn't happening all over France. You and the Media zoom in on the riots and then generalise giving support to the nonsense that France is a lawless country That simply isn't the reality. When did you last see rioting here in the Pays Basque or the Dordogne, perhaps Brittany or Normandy, how about the Centre? Stop generalising. Certainly the riots look spectacular, in any city or urban environment they would, why else are the cameras there and not focusing on the fetes here in the Pays Basque?
You feed on these riots as does the media because it suits yours, and theirs, agenda and then claim to know France. It maybe that a State of emergency is declared, I don't know. I do know that policing in France has to change. Simply having battalions of Police at one end of the street whilst rioters stand at the other end isn't policing. Neither is it policing when they drive around six or eight in a van.
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On 29/06/2023 at 07:33, alittlebitfrench said:
I moved from Winchester. Winchester is no cesspit. Everywhere I have lived in France I have enjoyed. One of the best places I lived was Bois Colombes which is the most densely populated area in Europe. Had a fantastic time.
Buying a house with a sea view or a mountain is not my thing.
Then it is your constant condemning of France that gives the impression you lived in less salubrious surroundings!!
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11 hours ago, alittlebitfrench said:
A few points darling.
1) I have lived all over France. 3 times in Paris…..including the 16th. You can’t beat Paris.
2) I now live in a very middle class sort after expensive area. For quality of life, heath facilities you cant beat it. Does it float my boat….not really. But it is very safe.
3) I could sell tomorrow and move anywhere in France. Including the UK. My French kids would move to Camden tomorrow. Buy a Dordogne gīte no problem.
4) But as with the majority of people in France you live where you work.
Not like yourself and most UK immigrants that can just pick and choose where to live.
I often ask myself where I would live in France given the choice. And in fact you can’t get much better than where we live now.
In which case I stand corrected. You got out of the cesspit and now live in a nice part of France. You see it is there isn't it, it's not all bad?
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12 hours ago, alittlebitfrench said:
Hey Ken…..I would love to plonk you into real France…you know real France where everyone lives..not the loverly make believe lavender field with a stoney house with blue shutters France…but real France.
HLM…in a town, city, village of your choosing.
You would be screaming back to Camden in an instant.
You would.
And you miss the point entirely my friend. You appear to have been immersed in a cess pit for too long you don't appreciate that there is another world out there!! The real France? Sure there are ghettos, drug areas and cess pits dotted around the country mostly in cities or large towns, as there are in all countries. I originate from a place of gang crime and drug dealing, I grew up with it. I could have chosen, as you seem to have done , to remain in that environment. I choose not to. You have that choice too!
I have no doubt there are dealers around here, wherever you find the dimwits looking for a fix you will find the people to supply it. Bayonne is only 20K from me and I'm sure there are problems there. In my village, I'm told, there are people using drugs but the point is I'm not affected, I have never seen any evidence of drug use or even crime. I don't take drugs or get involved with gangs and none of what I have suggested about this region and possible drug use is apparent, so life is good. It's now the season of the fétes and the 'jeune' have already been around for some dosh to help with the running of the féte and not a hypodermic in sight!!! You should try moving!!!
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5 minutes ago, DraytonBoy said:
You conveniently left off part of my reply which gave some context.
I don't have an issue with your views but IMO they do show a lack of tolerance to others.
5 minutes ago, DraytonBoy said:You conveniently left off part of my reply which gave some context.
I don't have an issue with your views but IMO they do show a lack of tolerance to others.
Now that's much better. I can appreciate an opinion, we all have them and rightly so. It's the ' fact' accusations that provoke argument and you were a little 'free' with making them!
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6 minutes ago, DraytonBoy said:
If everyone thought like you they would be.
We should all be more tolerant and understanding, if we were then it would be a much better world.
Indeed, the world would be wouldn't it? I live in the real world though and men having vaginas and women having penises transplanted on to them I fail to see how this aberration in human behaviour can make it a 'better world'! You agree with it, I don't have an argument with your views. You though, show a definite lake of tolerance for mine!!!
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1 hour ago, DraytonBoy said:
When the OP said he has 'lived a life' he really means he has lived his life as we all view 'life' differently. I can't begin to understand how people with gender dysphoria feel but they need help and support rather than be labelled as 'weirdos' and shunned/castigated by society.
1 hour ago, DraytonBoy said:When the OP said he has 'lived a life' he really means he has lived his life as we all view 'life' differently. I can't begin to understand how people with gender dysphoria feel but they need help and support rather than be labelled as 'weirdos' and shunned/castigated by society.
Thank you for letting me know what I mean!!! I can't understand why a man would want a vagina and and a woman a penis. You have sympathy for them, that would appear to be obvious. Such behaviour isn't normal and never has been. You find it acceptable and join in the chorus of "It's an illness" Me, I'm much more down to earth; they are weirdos; unfortunately they are not being shunned or castigated by society, it would seem the reverse in fact! People like you support them!
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11 hours ago, DraytonBoy said:
It's called gender dysphoria Ken which is a medically recognised condition.
Gender dysphoria is a term that describes a sense of unease that a person may have because of a mismatch between their biological sex and their gender identity. This sense of unease or dissatisfaction may be so intense it can lead to depression and anxiety and have a harmful impact on daily life.
I think perhaps Guardian has it!
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Just now, Ken said:
Come out of the woodwork to make a comment on the back of someone else, again!
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7 hours ago, Gardian said:
Oh dear, yet another more than strange rant from ‘we-all- know-who’.
This is the bloke who needs help, rather than the folk he’s going on about. He can’t see it though. Watch the next umpteen posts - denial, you’re all mad, I’m right, insults directed at me, etc, etc.
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I have lived a life, not without its ups and downs but wonder just what we have now arrived at. In my upbringing there were men and there were women; i. e. she had vaginas and men had, well dangly bits! Now there are women who want to be men, and of course men who want to be women. In between there is anything that you want to be!! In addition we now have children who want to be identified as cats or dogs and there seems to be support for these weirdos! , I gather my pension and think that if, or when, the world ends, I don't give a fu--ck!. I will live my life without these weirdos!
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2 hours ago, cajal said:
My take, at the moment, on all of this is that yesterday we witnessed two mafia style bosses sorting out their ongoing spat in a hastily cobbled manner for the benefit of the world's media to digest. The situation has, though, left Putin in a vulnerable and weakened position where he was forced to take to the Russian airwaves with an unscheduled public address, something he never does.
I will not be at all surprised, if in a few weeks I read that Prighozin has met an untimely death after falling from a balcony while in Belarus. Therefore, no knife or gunshot wounds, nor signs of any ingestion of polonium to cover up.
NATO must now ignore Biden and elevate that Brit guy, Wallace to secretary general in autumn to replace Stoltenberg, fast track Ukraine's admission to NATO and then proceed to chuck all the latest military hardware and technology at Zelensky's disposal. This would aid the Ukraine forces to hopefully call time on this criminal Russian activity.
Dream world, Wallace will never get the job. I agree that Prighozin may fall out of a window but N.A.T.O. can't ignore that idiot in the. White house because N.A.T.O. is the U.S.A. Ukraine will not be allowed to join N.AT.O. because of the fear of Nuclear war! I support Ukraine, but does the E.U.?
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I would be very surprised if Putin is ever put on trial. Exile, maybe, but trial; no.
Now the Wagner threat is, apparently, over what next for Russia? The whole episode must be seen as a weakening of Putins authority but is it enough to see him overthrown? Time will tell!
I have alway thought that the only way this war will end is if, and when, Putin is disposed. I still believe that and thought this was the beginning of the end of his reign, but no; not yet. The war will rumble on but Putin is weaker; of that there can be little doubt. Putin will be very concerned for his future I think!!
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1 hour ago, cajal said:
It looks like the Wagner Group may have acquired a new pay master. 👍
No, he is rich in his own world . Megalomania may be playing a part but wealth, no. Is this the end of Putin? I doubt it as long as the hangers-on think he can win. My view, Putin is finished. Probably end up a 'guest' of China;
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There is also swimming in the Pays Basque, horse riding; camping, guided tours of abandoned villages; any number of things to do here but the point is Menthe said Mountain walking not 'Nordic walking'! Half a mind!! That just about sums it up!!
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19 hours ago, menthe said:
I so hope that no one other than Ken thinks I have given the impression I am "an experienced mountain walker". How he got that impression I do not know. Does anyone else think I gave that impression?
No, I am a nordic walker and so my walks are not normally up mountains; steep hills maybe but not mountains. Though I HAVE done the Tour du Mont Blanc many years ago.
What I have often said is that I LOVE walking in mountainous areas. This is because there is something about the majesty of mountains and the something about the air. Strangely enough, despite my asthma, my breathing is never worse when I am high up. I have been in the area called Little Siberia in Switzerland in the winter when it was -32° and never felt worse for it.
Anyway, in our walks and wandering, we have moved far from Woolly's topic of rain. Yes, a lot of rain so I am keeping my fingers crossed that we would not encounter too much of it to stop us walking🙂
Judith I am sending you a PM in the next few minutes
"I love the Pays Basque and have had umpteen wonderful walking holidays there over many years." When someone says that, which is a direct quote, I think it reasonable that the impression given is of an experienced mountain walker!The pays Basque isn't known for its 'Nordic walking' because it happens to be a mountainous region!!
Even saying that you LOVE walking in mountainous regions implies mountain walking so please, less of the injured party!!!
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9 hours ago, DraytonBoy said:
@Ken, I don't know what the problem is but there is simply no need for the constant rudeness, put downs and aggression in many of your posts. Would you converse like this around a dinner table with friends?
In reply to your question, yes ; of course. You see, with friends you can talk freely without causing offence. Here, people take offence at the slightest criticism resulting in accusations, such as yours, which foster further argument.
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2 hours ago, Judith said:
Ken,
I do believe that Menthe knows more than enough about walking (lost track of how long she's been doing it, including Santiago), and IMHO, given the conditions she described, it would have been irresponsible as well as foolish to set of in such conditioins. I've done my fair share of walking in wet weather over the years, Lake District inlcuded when rain can be dangerous as well) and experience counts for more than supposed courage, which in some cases would be labelled stupidity.Not I am not accusing anyone of stupidity on here, but we had friends in the Yorkshire Dales Fell and Cave Rescue teams and some of their stories of stupid walkers were hair raising.
Poor scorn on inexperienced walkers (even when they might be your despised tourists who pay the wages of many in our southern areas), but not on experienced walkers like Menthe who took a sensible decision to forego their walk.
There is walking, and then again there is 'walking', Santiago!!! A stroll in the park for anyone capable of putting one foot in front of the other. Distance doesn't equate to experience in mountain craft, conditions or anything else. I thought I was conversing with someone who walks in the mountains, with all that entails, that was the impression given. Obviously that is not the case. I would agree that making a decision to not walk in the mountains because of adverse weather is a good decision but that is light years away from being an experienced mountain walker who can accommodate bad weather in bad conditions. I don't pour scorn on anyone wise enough to not be in the mountains in bad weather I do, however, hope that people wouldn't assume that because they walk around the foothills in good weather they assume they are experienced mountain walkers, or try to give that impression!!
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1 hour ago, menthe said:
I DIDN'T say I minded being unable to walk the unforgetable day when the rain was horizontal and we could see nothing for the mist.
We were a group of a dozen friends and we had a guide with us. We took our picnics back to the gîte and invited the guide to share our meal. He disappeared into his own house for a while and then came to our gîte to join us for lunch. He brought with him some special pâté that he'd made himself.
During the afternoon he spent with us, we learnt a lot from him about walking in the mountains and it was an afternoon that all of us present still now and again remember and talk about with enjoyment.
Even "tourists" don't want to be doing touristy things ALL the time.
We shall certainly be going to the resto in Banca on our first night there and re-engaging the singers we know to come and sing us Basque songs and no doubt they will be wearing their black berets and red neckerchieves to regale us with their songs and provide the music for dancing.
Other thing is, it doesn't do to be too snooty about the tourists; you might not work in the tourism industry but I know that many of the locals in the Pays Basque would find earning a livelihood considerably more challenging without the much needed income that tourists bring.
And I thought you were a real walker!!! Picnic, a guide, pâté, restaurant at the Banca!! Sounds more like a stroll around Hyde Park!!! Now if you would like to hear about some very serious walking I could regale you with real walking stories, then again you probably wouldn't believe me.
Incidentally I don't mind tourists, I don't recall saying I did! It makes a nice change when they start arriving and of course it's even better when the season ends!!!! I know the locals welcome the tourist season, at least the money!!! I know though that they are not particularly keen on the tourists themselves.
Keep up the walking and don't eat too much of that pâté! remember the 'Pot Belly' syndrome!!!.
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37 minutes ago, betise said:
So sorry, I thought I had expressed myself quite clearly, you are wrong.
Now, I really must toddle off and do something useful.
I guess it did then!!
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15 minutes ago, betise said:
Am I speaking to Ken, or Ken mark 2, or an algorithm? I really don't think you can be an algorithm though Ken, as they necessitate being based on logic.
But even a broken clock is right twice a day, so better luck next time.
Tick tock ...
So vociferous! I presume the 'pot belly' jibe struck home!!
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15 hours ago, betise said:
What's your excuse then?
You think my view of 'pot bellied' is 'warped'? It is usually the 'pot bellied' ones who react!!
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5 minutes ago, DraytonBoy said:
I've lived here long enough to know that the type of Brit you describe doesn't choose rural France as his/her home.
Really! Where do they live?
A Life!
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So, you believe the press? What's more you can recognise gypsies!!!! If I had to rely on you in a courtt of law, well I wouldn't bother!!