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5 hours ago, jingjai9 said:

It is good they have these content advisories. They are not banning the films, but are instead helping us reflect on our history. We must recognize the wrongs of the past, acknowledge them, face them and move on a litle wiser. Now is the time to ask: Can we learn anything from history?

 

 I cannot see how this is merely political correctness. Younger people watch Disney and this may be their only exposure to history.

 

The racism is wrong, mistakes were made and we must move on - but that does  not mean that one race is bad because they discriminated - they were wrong and need to make it right. 

 

If you look deep enough into history, I think you will find every culture has had "their moments" of prejudice and misanthropy. The Vikings enslaved white people. The Ottomons were involved in slavery, and who was meaner than Genghis Khan? The Romans and Greeks had slaves and many historians tell us Africans could not have been enslaved in such large numbers had it not been for other Africans aiding and abetting the slavetraders. 

 

 

If you check the actual facts you'll find out far more Europeans were enslaved by the Ottomans and their Barbary Pirate friends. Many raids on coastal communities captured large numbers. Service in the Ottoman galleys, sold in slave markets or ransomed back. 

This focus on one small window in the appalling history of slavery, which is still very active today, by BLM and those demanding reparations is pure pantomime and a corruption of history.

11 hours ago, Nigel Garvie said:

Yes it's a great quote, and illustrates perfectly how focussing on one minor issue can make you incapable of seeing the broader picture. 

 

However we are wasting our time, Brexit has become a religion with sacred beliefs, such as the transubstantiation of the flesh! We are dealing with fundamentalists here, many of them on TV it appears. People who believe that Islam justifies sacrifice for Allah, are the same type as those who believe that Brexit justifies failing to get a trade deal, and defaulting to an economy destroying hard Brexit. 

 

Who wins from a UK economy ruined by Brexit and Covid? Well...... London is already one of the biggest tax avoidance capital cities in the world, that should give us a start.

 

 Boris is no idealist, he never really cared about Brexit one way or the other, he is a careerist, the question remains who is going to line his pockets? 

 

 

 

 

I think Macron, the ex-banker (with a b not a w) is just like Boris. Both careerists, and both having their pockets lined; egotistical entitled elitists too.

Merkel, isn't. And I'd wager she'd love to see this sorted much more amicably as part of her swansong. 

As for the other leaders - whatever, as they ain't important. France and Germany clearly call the shots. 

Looking more and more like a nasty no deal with huge resentment and silly behavior - all because greedy French fishermen refuse to change.

14 hours ago, baboon said:

You can always dip your hand in your pocket seeing as you are so concerned...

Roomers of your death were greatly exaggerated then?

Good to have you back ???? !!

22 hours ago, johng said:

Are you watching on "True"  by any chance ?

Yep and they do it to the BBC News too. A nice little convenient intermission.

Isn't AirBnB illegal in Thailand? Can't rent for less than a month; complaints from hoteliers etc?

When did this change?

22 hours ago, Odysseus123 said:

Until now?

 

Anything in particular happen to you today?

 

Somtam not to your liking...spurned by Porn the bar girl?

 

 

 

If you can't see the world becoming more violent and dangerous then you must be either very naive, have some very rose tinted glasses or imbibing something strong. Or any combination.

On 10/15/2020 at 7:05 PM, Lacessit said:

Question is, will it break down under Biden or Trump?

Or Harris?

2 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Do they censor what they don't like or what is unconfirmed?

It seems lots of stories seem to become "real" when they are repeated often enough on social media. Is that good?

I.e. that stupid Q-Anon conspiracy. Wouldn't it be much better if social media would not have spread that and other crazy conspiracy theories?

 

I think it should be the duty of the media to publish the truth. But I guess I am a little old-fashioned with that expectation.

That's fine, providing they do that to all and every story, and not based on their own political bias. Seeing how the traditional media have evolved I wouldn't count on sm being any different.

11 minutes ago, Rookiescot said:

What deadline has the EU set?

Read the article. Read previous articles from early this year in which the new EU commission president was suggesting delaying deadlines due to Covid.

9 minutes ago, luckyluke said:

Fully agree,

and no opinion has less/more value than another.

So true. But in today's politically correct environment, that seems to have been forgotten.

16 hours ago, melvinmelvin said:

and if the croaking frog still thinks that the odd cod speaking the jock lingo can be extracted from foggy island waters

its in his interest to push on

 

I think I understand you. (Are you related to Nostradamus?).

I saw an interviews with a French fishermen association representative. He was suggesting, strongly, that reduced catches and quotas were better than no catches and quotas. But that the industry expected that the French government would then have to compensate fishermen for loss of earnings!

16 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Good on him!

Are you going to pay his fines for him?

1 hour ago, Emdog said:

My take on this is the British people did a good job following government guidelines for months in belief that leadership had some level of expertise.

The gov has shown they are clueless at best

Totally understand why there is now a grassroots revolt against edicts that don't work, other than to drive people and businesses into poverty

From a Yank here in Thailand

Indeed. Look at all the EU countries. All floundering with governments re-imposing lockdowns, curfews, hybrids thereof etc. 

So much for great Western powers - including the USA, and Aussie. 

12 hours ago, otherstuff1957 said:

The historical records of who married whom during the Ptolemaic dynasty are rather confusing, as many of them had the same names.  However, the theory that she was 1/2 or 1/4 African doesn't have much historical proof to back it up.  She was probably of 100% Greek ancestry and Gal Gadot wouldn't particularly stand out on the streets of Athens as a foreigner.

 

There were African (Nubian) pharaohs, the 25th dynasty were clearly Black Africans, however, Cleopatra was not one of them.

The Ptolemaic dynasty, like many others, liked to keep marriages within the family. That makes it even more unlikely she was anything other than Greek/Macedonian in genes.

3 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

You even got ‘5G’ in there, itself a target of a Russian misinformation campaign. 

Sure. Because Russia is the capital of IT intelligence and no other country spies, hacks or tries to influence things in it's favor.