SaligoBay Posted May 31, 2005 Share Posted May 31, 2005 Did this make it into the UK news at all? Riots, burnings, lootings, CRS, it's been très chaud down there in the general direction of Spain.In French at http://info.france2.fr/france/10867434-fr.phpAnd it all started with the simple beating to death of a jeune maghrebin (Moroccan/N African) in broad daylight by 3 gitans armed with metal bars, something about an allegation of car theft, or over a parking place. The murder of a second maghrebin on Sunday night didn't help matters.It's that laid-back lifestyle, innit, it must get to people after a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opas Posted May 31, 2005 Share Posted May 31, 2005 L`independant newspaper didn`t give half of that detail that I have just read on your link. Mrs O Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine Animal Posted May 31, 2005 Share Posted May 31, 2005 [quote]Did this make it into the UK news at all? Riots, burnings, lootings, CRS, it's been très chaud down there in the general direction of Spain. In French at http://info.france2.fr/france/10867434-fr....[/quote]"It all started with the simple beating to death of a yound maghrebin." ??????Christine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRT17 Posted May 31, 2005 Share Posted May 31, 2005 I was in France but nowhere near Perpignan. There was a lot of coverage on French radio news about this happening. I don't know whether it hit the U.K. headlines but then I expect we had our own violence and tragedies to report.It is sometimes a very sad world in which we live.Gill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tresco Posted May 31, 2005 Share Posted May 31, 2005 '"It all started with the simple beating to death of a yound maghrebin." ??????'Having been here a long time, much longer than i have been posting, I feel safe in saying Saligobay was being a tiny bit sarcastic. She may also have been drawing attention to the way many people seem to view these sort of events. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine Animal Posted May 31, 2005 Share Posted May 31, 2005 Thank you for the clarification Tresco and apologies for the typing mistake, it should of course have been young maghrebin. Glad to learn that the guru Saligobay is a "she", you never know who you are dealing with behind all these pseudos. Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit they say, but it's such fun isn't it?! Christine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobS Posted May 31, 2005 Share Posted May 31, 2005 I think you are maligning young SB here. I would have said that her style was ironic rather than sarcastic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tresco Posted May 31, 2005 Share Posted May 31, 2005 Thank you ZappaFan, ironic is better. I just could not think of a better word at the time. I am losing the power of speech.Anyway, Christine, (and I din't even notice your typing error)you still seem a little unconvinced, but SB often slopes around the internet finding stuff for us to read that is nothing to do with being a white ex-pat in France!Edit. Oh blithering heck I re read your post Christine and it seems you may have been convinced, of something after all, sorry. Anyway this guru thing, no offense to those who have achieved this 'status', but it is based on number of posts, not level of wisdom. We have recently lost a member who would have achieved guruhood a long time ago if he had not had half his posts deleted along the way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opas Posted May 31, 2005 Share Posted May 31, 2005 All we need to do now is convince Julz that my comments were practical and not `snide`and we will have an apparent TF situation, Fluffy and Pink!mrs OPS have to go to this area of Perpignan tomorrow......wish me a safe jouney Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine Animal Posted May 31, 2005 Share Posted May 31, 2005 Thank you Tresco, I feel I may have been convinced. Ironic, sarcastic, as long as it's all in good fun, I'm for it... Christine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miki Posted May 31, 2005 Share Posted May 31, 2005 "......but it is based on number of posts, not level of wisdom"But in SB's case but sadly not mine, it certainly is based on the level of wisdom.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaligoBay Posted May 31, 2005 Author Share Posted May 31, 2005 Miki, I love you, and I want to have your babies.Lunch on me for whoever knows where that quote comes from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miki Posted May 31, 2005 Share Posted May 31, 2005 God knows it's not Miki up high on the saddle but one of Gods priveleged people, he knows I am more to the style of Adam Faith but our "cyber chavs" will not have the problems associated with living in Slough, that's a bonus I guess Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miki Posted May 31, 2005 Share Posted May 31, 2005 "....Lunch on me for whoever knows where that quote comes from"Was it Marilyn Monroe to Jack ?Or Kathy Burke to Harry Enfield ?Or THAT woman to Pres Mitterand (Miki Mitter being the suggested code name used at the time)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teamedup Posted May 31, 2005 Share Posted May 31, 2005 Saligo, I'm probably way off but I sort of remember a man saying this about another man or to another man. Very cloudy though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tresco Posted June 1, 2005 Share Posted June 1, 2005 'But in SB's case but sadly not mine, it certainly is based on the level of wisdom....' (Miki)Ah but then you do occasionally delight us all with the picture of gorgeous young Greavsie hugging the goalpost Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tourangelle Posted June 1, 2005 Share Posted June 1, 2005 [quote]All we need to do now is convince Julz that my comments were practical and not `snide`and we will have an apparent TF situation, Fluffy and Pink! mrs O PS have to go to this area of Perpignan tomor...[/quote]was the Perpignan trip safe, mrs O? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opas Posted June 1, 2005 Share Posted June 1, 2005 Yup back safe and sound ,thanks for asking. We didn`t have to venture that far as I did a search on pages jaunes and found a cobbler(cordonnerier) nearer to home....though there arn`t many about....the shop we found took me back 30 odd years. Mrs O Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaligoBay Posted June 1, 2005 Author Share Posted June 1, 2005 Saligo, I'm probably way off but I sort of remember a man saying this about another man or to another man. Very cloudy thoughAll round to TU's for lunch (I changed the rules). It was indeed young Edmund Blackadder, after inadvertently burning the only copy of Dr Johnson's famous dictionary. He stayed up all weekend trying to rewrite it, with the help of Prince George and Baldrick, then fell asleep and dreamed that Dr Johnson came in and said it didn't matter because the dictionary was rubbish. Blackadder tells Dr Johnson he loves him, and Dr J goes pirhouetting happily off, along with Baldrick who has changed into a pirhouetting Alsatian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teamedup Posted June 1, 2005 Share Posted June 1, 2005 Stands back in amazement, I didn't think that it would be that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobS Posted June 1, 2005 Share Posted June 1, 2005 See you Gurus know everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teamedup Posted June 1, 2005 Share Posted June 1, 2005 ps I'm not really a guru, and I don't know everything either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miki Posted June 1, 2005 Share Posted June 1, 2005 Us mere "Gurus" bow only to one higher Guru, the one with infinite wisdom, known only to us as "La dame mystérieuse avec l'intelligence incroyable" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teamedup Posted June 1, 2005 Share Posted June 1, 2005 Miki, I think that you have said it all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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