herfiehandbag

I dislike Yaxley-Lennon/ Tommy Robinson, and virtually all he stands for. My distrust is compounded by his use of a pseudonim in his political campaigning.

But he is entitled to his views, and to move around freely.

One must ask why it was necessary to pepper spray and handcuff him - surely not because he was engaged in acts of disorder, pepper spray and handcuffs are not appropriate because he is an irritating little turd!

And then having arrested and arraigned him, Plod screws up the paperwork.

The very active bias in the way the Met enforces the law in this area is actually quite dangerous for maintaining freedom of speech and freedom for political campaigning. It is only alleviated by the apparent incompetence of the senior police commanders!

13 hours ago, Gweiloman said:

Hot weather, my behind. It’s all this EVangelists charging their Chinese made milk floats.

Evangelists - absolutely classic, brilliant phrase coined!

12 minutes ago, bubblegum said:

 

So all the effort Mr Trump and the MAGA media machine are putting in is working then...

20 minutes ago, Ben Zioner said:

So you just don't know what you are talking about, do you?

Well I will admit that I am not a habitue of bars where it is customary to humiliate the dancers by throwing low denomination bank notes for them to scramble to pick up, (I am no plaster saint but I don't stoop to humiliating girls like that); but let us remind ourselves of exactly what you said ( in full and unedited) in your post.

2 hours ago, Ben Zioner said:

Used to be part of the fun, get 20 Baht notes for 500 or 1000 Baht and rain them down of the stage. The girls where like chooks at feeding time.. Not seen it happen recently. Everything has changed, not much fun left only a few nice young bodies for quickies, and even that gets off limit for whiteys in some places, certain days of the week. Now even Stickman agrees that there is an anti westerners mood around. Read his last columns.

No mention of Japanese or Koreans, but a very specific reference to an "anti westerners mood!

I don't suppose we will ever really know the truth behind the allegations of corruption, and the exact details of the conflict between "Big Jok" and his peers. I also am aware that photographs can and are chosen to "add weight" to stories; but the OP photograph, somewhat dishevelled and with that slightly manic grin, doesn't really convince that he is on top of the situation.

I suspect that, for the right reasons or the wrong reasons ( probably a mixture of both) he is toast.

As Julius Caesar is reported to have favoured: "well fed sleek-headed men and such as sleep o' nights. Yon Cassius (Surachate Hakparn)has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous."

The guys at the top are well fed sleek-headed men!

14 minutes ago, Ben Zioner said:

This is a case where the "sad emotion" was totally pertinent. 

 

But what makes your post utterly ridiculous is that those who rained the largest amounts were mostly Japanese or Korean customers. 

Nothing ridiculous - you talked of the "fun", you made no mention whatsoever of Japanese or Koreans!

1 hour ago, Ben Zioner said:

Used to be part of the fun, get 20 Baht notes for 500 or 1000 Baht and rain them down of the stage. The girls where like chooks at feeding time.. Not seen it happen recently. Everything has changed, not much fun left only a few nice young bodies for quickies, and even that gets off limit for whiteys in some places, certain days of the week. Now even Stickman agrees that there is an anti westerners mood around. Read his last columns.

Hardly surprising really (the anti Westerner mood) if "fun" consisted of throwing low denomination banknotes at girls on stage, to watch them scramble to pick them up!

13 hours ago, impulse said:

I wouldn't cross the street for a Formula 1 race. 

Crossing the street in Bangkok is a risky undertaking anyway, with or without a Formula 1 race in progress!

12 hours ago, marin said:

Big joke is not and has never been clean. Cultivated an image in the media that helped him, hated in both the police and immigration for a variety of reasons. 

10 hours ago, norfolkandchance said:

Have you evidence of this.

Well, somebody shot up his car when it was parked outside a massage parlour...

Perhaps not "evidence", but certainly an indication that he is not universally popular!

Two points:

1) Sunak is the Prime Minister not the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

2) Sunak and Cleverly (Home Secretary - the minister responsible for policing) can write as many letters as they wish. The Metropolitan Police Command Structure will ignore them. They know that there is to be an election within the year, they know that this government is toast, and they are looking towards making an accommodation with its successor - maybe already have!

Does the Iranian Embassy in Paris have a convenient balcony...

On 4/17/2024 at 5:47 PM, Chomper Higgot said:

You’ve adopted the logic of a Monty Python sketch

 

…. 

 

I broke a coffee cup this afternoon.

 

Biden is President, ergo the broken coffee cup is Biden’s fault.

 

A comprehensive knowledge of Monty Python's Flying Circus is a great help in understanding the current American political circumstances.

Perhaps "Pythonography" should be included in Ivy League University studies?

16 hours ago, loong said:

Did you miss what happened on the 7th of October last year? You don't think that it was hateful, murdering Muslim savages that attacked Israeli citizens? The Palestinians started the war and what did they expect Israel to do? Slap their hands and ask them not to do it again?

As long as they only slapped their hands in a proportional way!

Imagine if you will, if Israeli gangs had crossed into, say Syria, early in the morning of the Feast of Eid, slaughtered 1500 Muslims in their homes, raped to death female children and burnt alive infants, before dragging several hundred hostages away, never to be seen again, and broadcasting those exploits over the internet.

Would there be a "proportional response"?

Would Western Media rush to interview, and understand the motivations of those who oversaw such an attack?

18 hours ago, billd766 said:

Nothing like provoking your enemy, and (deleted) off your few friends that you have left in the world.

 

Especially as you attacked Iran in the first place.

 

They retaliated in a minor way and said as far as they were concerned, that was the end of it. So now you attack them a second time.

 

To all those Israeli and IDF supporters on here.

 

I know and understand that you will find a rational excuse for Israel. But there is no rational excuse at all.

 

Does this look like the action of a sane and rational leader, or that of a homicidal maniac?

 

 

Iran launched a barrage of drones and missiles against Israel.

Iran is very close, some say as close as six months, to putting together a working nuclear warhead for those drones and missiles.

I don't think provocation comes into it - once they have the nuclear warhead Iran will, almost inevitably, threaten to use it if not use it. The Iranian regime has declared what it claims is a sacred mission to destroy Israel. They are a theocracy, one cannot comfortably assume that they do not mean it.

Is it a provocation for Israel to demonstrate that they can reach into Iran if they want?

On 4/13/2024 at 12:31 PM, transam said:

But driving an MG, one has to put a bag over one's head..........😂

Donkeys years ago (when I had a proper MG), when driving in the rain the roof leaked so much a bag on your head was handy!

40 minutes ago, herfiehandbag said:

Take a (new - you don't want your wine to taste of Kiwi!) shoe laces, tie a big knot in one end.

 

With a skewer or screwdriver gently push the cork down past the neck of the bottle until it is floating in the wine.

 

Ease the knotted end of the shoelace down past the cork.

 

Firmly but gently withdraw the shoelace, it will bring the broken cork up through the neck of the bottle.

Works with Jockanese falling down water too!