howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Jan Higgins
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It would help if reputable sources did not announce so many stories about various diseases and food items that often seem to contradict each other.
I remember the eggs and butter are bad for you statements but now seem to be OK, surely any natural food stuff must be better for you than something concocted in some laboratory.
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I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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This is a particularly nasty one as Breitbart is a source taken seriously by many.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/german-police-rubbish-breitbart-report-202525120.htmlCaptain Haddock
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This web site is usually quite good at nailing unreliable and downright untrue stuff:-
http://www.snopes.com/Ross Miller likes this
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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A good source for debunking nonsense but by the time they publish the terminally gullible won't change their mindset. One of my favourites was when it was announced that muslims in a small town in Northern Territories, Australia had demanded that all bars and pubs should be closed and only halal food be eaten. The local mayor was bemused as he didn't think there were any muslims living there. A few days two young blokes owned up and admitted that they just wanted to see how many people around the world would believe it.
Paul M- Registered: 1 Feb 2016
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I bet the Daily Mail fell for it!
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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There are still many people on social media that think Barack Obama is a muslim despite him and his family going to church of a Sunday, they won't be convinced otherwise.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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(Here goes!
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I was talking to one of the councillors the other day and he has told me that that planning permission has been [U]definitely[/U] been applied for at DDC to turn the Regent Cinema in Deal into mosque but they're keeping it quiet from the public so it isn't appearing on the council web-site and they are just going to put it through the planning committee because they know that no-one from the press turns up to report it and the Timeball Tower is supporting the application as they are getting money from it as it is going to be used by the Muezin to call people to prayer.
(Will that do?)
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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When the former Church later to be a factory closed in my road I jokingly said to someone it was being converted into a Mosque. What I hadn't realised was that many people thought that the Romas from Slovakia were Muslim because of having dark skin, the fact that quite a few got drunk on a regular basis didn't alter that view.
Reginald Barrington
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I heard someone daubed the place in pigs blood hoping to scupper the application but the Muslim council said it made no difference as they hadn't consecrated the ground yet
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Arte et Marte
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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I was talking to one of the blokes working on the old Central Cafe on London Road and apparently it's going to be a 'marital aids' shop.
A fellow on the DTIZ site also told me it's all on schedule for opening as planned.
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Guest 1881- Registered: 16 Oct 2016
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Captain Haddock wrote:I was talking to one of the blokes working on the old Central Cafe on London Road and apparently it's going to be a 'marital aids' shop.
A fellow on the DTIZ site also told me it's all on schedule for opening as planned.
That all well and good, but how will we know if the marital aids are being put to use on consenting, married-to-one-another adults? I hope that the shop ensures that both of the married couple attend the purchase WITH their marriage licence AND their marriage witnesses. Standards must be kept.
Just because you don't take an interest in politics doesn't mean that politics won't take an interest in you. PERICLES.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Speaking of which people often ask me whether these 'penis enlargers' work.
Mine does.
She's called Sharon and is 23 years old.
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Ross Miller
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Sadly when much of the fourth estate either fails to properly investigate its stories, slants stories to suit the political bias of their owners &/or editors, fails to report stories at all, makes it up to sell their output, scours social media for stories etc is it any wonder people turn to the fifth estate for their news and then fall for the false news there.
When the fourth estate gets back to the halcyon days of real investigative journalism (Washington Post - Watergate, FT - Maxwell Pension scandal, Telegraph - MP's expenses etc.) then we might take the bastards seriously
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The good old BBC, unbiased as ever seems to have censored any news about Palestine from its programmes, to the extent that shows like 'strictly come dancing' (whatever that is !) gets more air time.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Barrie Nicoll wrote:The good old BBC, unbiased as ever seems to have censored any news about Palestine from its programmes, to the extent that shows like 'strictly come dancing' (whatever that is !) gets more air time.
In all seriousness my carer and I were looking at a hotel holiday which included entertainment with a singer whose name was followed by '(BGT)'.
All I could think of was LGBT and was musing why his act might nor be acceptable to lesbians when my carer pointed out it's a TLA (three letter acronym) for Britain's Got Talent which is apparently a television programme.
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Weird Granny Slater
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Coming to a TV screen near you. Or perhaps you've seen it already, if you know what I mean:
https://vimeo.com/262737308
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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