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17 hours ago, anotherbanana said:
by the Greens!
Remember it is of Christian origin!
But, no champagne? Nuts. Presumably one could sell bibles and corans?
A strange list! No umbrellas or grilled chicken; can't even buy my cat a warm coat!!!! presumably I can still get as pissed as a parrot if I want!!
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My two favourites, apart from indicted former Presidents that is, is the Minister for Justice under investigation and the former Finance Minister imprisoned for money laundering! I suppose a close second comes the president of the assembly under investigation for his preferences regarding contracts to companies!!
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1 hour ago, Lori said:
Terrible creatures.
Terrible creatures! I wonder if we simply kill every thing would the world be a better place, I don't this so!
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2 hours ago, Harnser said:
Why so many mosquitoes this year down your way with a heatwave and drought?
They need stagnant water to be able to breed, and the adults don't live that long, 3 - 4 weeks I read.
So are they a different type or species?
Terrible year for mosquitoes here also despite it being as dry as a bone so I looked it up! It would appear that mosquitoes don't need stagnant water just any amount of standing water will do to breed. Even a saucer sized , quarter of an inch deep will do!! As they lay hundreds of eggs at a time just a few' puddles' will ensure a healthy supply of mosquitoes! I have a couple of large water butts in the garden for when there is a drought, no doubt they found them to be most suitable to breed!!! I suppose even watering plants could be a place for them to breed, they need only minimal amounts of water. Even just a damp patch will do!!
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13 minutes ago, DaveLister said:
I'd agree with you but then we'd both be wrong
Absolutely, two wrongs have never made a right!! Best to stick to your guns and disagree!
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There is more actually. Sarcasm being a form of wit is to make a someone aware of their own lack of knowledge or understanding on a given subject. Of course a certain level of intelligence is required to understand this and it is why sarcasm usually descends into acrimony!!
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But you don't know if you have been bitten until it starts to itch!!! Apaisyl is quite good though. This year has been strangely worse than previous years. No doubt someone will blame Brexit!!
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48 minutes ago, ssomon said:
I've heard it said that sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.
You seem to be half-way to being a wit 😉
Oh very good! I've never heard that before!!
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12 hours ago, Riggers said:
Pet rats and wild rats are somewhat different
Oh really? I would never have thought that!
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55 minutes ago, Martin963 said:
It's funny how we distinguish between the suffering of a mouse (cute) and a rat (less cute). One of our three chats d'origine francais proudly brought in a large dead rat to the bedroom a few nights ago and was roundly congratulated. I daresay the rat was less happy with the situation.
Exactly! What does that say about us? I had rats as pets when living in London!! People and their take on life is the problem, as I have found here!!!
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2 hours ago, ssomon said:
We have any number of feral cats who walk through our garden on their way somewhere known only to cats, all following a path probably established by the First Cat.
We regard them as no more or less than any other wild animals which pass by, with no wish to either befriend or nourish them.
Yesterday a young one, looking very like "Jake", was tormenting a tiny mouse, about an inch long, on our grass patch, letting it loose only to hunt it down again when it moved a few feet.
When I went out a couple of times to interfere, it picked up the mouse by the tail, carried it out of reach into the bushes, and returned to its game when I went back inside.
Cats have nasty habits as well as smells.
It is human nature, I suppose, when someone sees a cat 'playing' with a mouse that they condemn the cat! Understandable as the mouse appears a 'friendly' little thing that harms no one; worse of course when a cat kills a bird. No one ever praises the cat that kills rats!! Famers invariably have several cats around doing a very good job in that respect.
I have saved countless mice, birds and other mammals that my cats have caught, sadly not all. Cats are not 'playing' with mice they catch they are simply following an age old instinct regarding hunting. As regards 'feral' cats it is more likely the ones you see are domesticated and not feral. Feral cats would be hunting to eat, not play! As regards habits and smells--- Cats are inherently clean animals and spend a lot of time cleaning themselves. If, one should get close enough to a cat and it smells it would be because it is very sick and can't take care of itself. As for nasty habits, I don't know of any.
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2 hours ago, menthe said:
Ken, that was a touching story about how you came by jake and her siblings. I have now decided that underneath all your truculent exterior, you must actually be a real softie at heart? Am I right in this assessment?
IMO, anyone who is kind and considerate to cats cannot be entirely bad. Anyone who is kind to dogs also and birds and all manner of living things.....
Live and let live. OK MOST of the time...!!!
Hey, c'mon I have a reputation to consider!!!!!
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9 minutes ago, DaveLister said:
He's a sweetie
Well actually he is a she!!!! It's a very long story but when her Mum turned up on my doorstep many years ago ( a wild cat not even feral!) I trapped her and eventually ended up at the vet where he x-rayed her and told me there were three kittens two male, one female. My wife decided on names for all of them but of course when they were born, on my lap by the way, we stuck with the names we had decided on so Jake was forever doomed to be thought of as a male and people are forever doomed to listen to the story!!!
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23 minutes ago, DaveLister said:
Ken, there is something I've been meaning to ask you for some time.
What is the name of your cat?
The one in the picture, Jake. I have four would you like the names of the other three?
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'White trash' is a racist and discriminatory expression of that there can be no doubt. There are many connotations regarding it and they don't have to apply simply to people of different colour. In the context of use by Banana it was quite definitely discriminatory. Simply dissecting the expression doesn't make it any the less racist. It is an unsavoury expression and anyone supporting it should be ashamed of themselves.
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6 hours ago, anotherbanana said:
My dear, sweet Ken, my views are my own, get used to it or suck it up. I am not prepared to debate with you. Your record on the forum suggests you like to stir the pot for the sake of it, not good. Suggest you go on holiday, try to find some friends though I cant think where, and come back if you must with your brain unfried. Fondest.
Introducing colour into your comment was wrong and you should know it! Had you said 'black trash' you would, without a doubt, have been in trouble. Fortunately for you and your liberal 'opinion' it would seem it is acceptable to say 'white trash'! Trying to deflect what you said by making childish remarks about holiday and friends doesn't wash with me, a racist remark intentional or otherwise is unacceptable.
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5 hours ago, anotherbanana said:
Had I wished to indicate otherwise, Ken, I would have written tsotsi or badmash.
As I am white, the last time I looked, I am entitled to comment on my own race, at least? I have come across more than enough white trash in France over the years though perhaps Brexit may cleared them out. It is up to the gendarmes to root out those who pop over for a couple of months thieving.
My understanding is that Spain had more than its fair share.
Bull sh-it all you want. Yes, you can comment on your own race but why decide they are white trash? You don't know! Perhaps they were white trash or black trash or east European trash or simply Banana trash! Since when are you judge and jury?
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2 hours ago, DaveLister said:
Morning Ken,
Had a good holiday?
Haven't been away yet. I go in January!!! Can you imagine the furore if the term 'Black trash' had been used, probably be a guest of macron's penitentiary system by now!!!
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5 hours ago, anotherbanana said:
Not many Brits in France are coloured or mixed race.
But quite obviously there are so why pick on a particular ethnic group claiming they were 'white trash'?
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How do you know they were white trash and not black trash?
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8 hours ago, Riggers said:
Sorry I’ve been misreading I thought this thread was about QUEEN Elizabeth not PM Liz
8 hours ago, Riggers said:Sorry I’ve been misreading I thought this thread was about QUEEN Elizabeth not PM Liz
Well try to keep up to date!!
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On 15/09/2022 at 09:47, Martin963 said:
I'd be the first to admit that Truss is something of an unknown quantity to me. But to say that all she has done other than make a speech about cheese suggests that you haven't perhaps been paying attention. At the lunchtime of the day the Queen died she announced more useful policies in an hour than we've heard in the last 18 months, a British "tarif bouclier" and the re-starting of fracking being just two.
As to her comments about Macron, many of us would entirely agree with her measured remark about the jury being out. In my lifetime I have never known anyone - claiming to be a friend - attempt to do so much damage to Britain, and I for one will never forgive him. Rubbishing the vaccine (and still refusing to admit he told lies about it), threatening to cut off electricity to the Channel Islands, supporting the invoking of the suspension of the NI protocol over vaccines, using Beaune as a constant attack dog against us whenever he couldn't be bothered to do the job himself, playing the constant bad cop against us in the Brexit process, need I go on...
Macron has undone Anglo-French relations to such an extent that I doubt they will recover in my lifetime. Even I - a lifelong lover of France *and* its people - no longer rush to their aid when someone cracks a joke about them, and I no longer buy French products. I will review my stance when Macron goes, but in the meantime I would urge any British politician not to trust France or its president until 2027.
I know, an extreme position, and I never EVER thought I would come to feel anything like this level of animosity. It grieves me, but Macron is the culprit, the only culprit.
The only thing I would say about his utterances on the Queen is at least he recognises quality, and perhaps is dimly aware now after his election humiliations and his current political weakness that he will never EVER be fit even to wipe Her Shoes.
Now it would appear she wants to bring back opening of Grammar Schools, it gets better and better; though not if you have socialist tendencies of course!!! Grammar schools though stopped opening by Labour didn't stop the socialist elite sending their kids to Private schools! The plebs would have to make do with comprehensive! Well done Liz.
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Maybe it's all the fresh air and mountain views around here but all the postmen and women have been great since we arrived 22 years ago. If there is a parcel too big for the box they leave it in a secure place by the house., always a wave or a smile. In complete contrast is the woman who works in the little post office in the village. Miserable vache doesn't come into it!! Then again she doesn't get the fresh air and and certainly doesn't have the views!!
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La Poste was grateful to me!!! The postwoman , after delivering the mail reversed into an adjacent ditch and couldn't get out. Using my 4 X 4 I pulled her van out and she was on her way. The next day she arrived with a large freshly baked Gateau Basque to say "thank you". A lovely surprise; and a tasty one!
Items banned from the Strasbourg Xmas market
in The Complete France Post Bag
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Come Christmas I usually take several hours putting up lights in the garden, not to mention the tree inside. This year I'm torn between doing so again and to hell with the energy crisis, or not, and having a light free Xmas!
I'm not an eco freak by any means, by and large I think it all the 'eco' thing is a load of nonsense, though I do compost my house and garden refuse; but then again I did that long before it became 'fashionable'. I have to admit that my hesitation in not putting up lights stems from the possible fact that people would disapprove of me doing so and would not be to save us from Putin and his affects on gas supply!
When I see things like car washes going full blast and street lighting left on all night despite there being no traffic and indeed sometimes left on all day too because the 'timer' is wrong I wonder why I should bother!
I think I shall certainly have my tree with all its lights happily blazing away but as for the garden, well I'm undecided; unusual for me as normally I don't care a 'monkeys' what people think! I think it is only going to take someone with an even lower moral compass than I have to put up outside lights and that will be the tipping point and 'up they will go'!
I could always pretend ,I suppose ,that I have my own generator purring away in the basement running on cheap petrol from Spain!!!