WILF
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I can see how, while having broom round the railway station of an evening, the mind probably wanders and, as you pick up your 8000th empty Costa cup, a bloke could be imagining “what if I had an electric car/dog/gym membership/reputation for fighting/space rocket/aircraft carrier ?” or even “I could move but the insurmountable task of selling a house, buying a house & getting on ferry is a bridge too far” Yep, can see how that would happen ?
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In next weeks episode of “Made up things that never happened” he will be building an airstrip in his back garden and asking for advice on which jumbo jet is best value because his mate down the pub has one he can sell him ! lol
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No, he owns a nuclear power station ! lol
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15 doubloons ! lol
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Fantasy Island obviously isn’t that big ! lol
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He generates some bollocks that’s for sure ! lol
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It had never happened to me either…..until it did.
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Here’s a fact, earlier this year a big storm hit the country, massive parts of the country were without power. I was without power or water for 11 days, many people went much longer than that. Across the country it was reported that all the people with EVs couldn’t go anywhere after about 2 days…..no charge left in the car and no way to charge them. I had a full tank of diesel and was able to get out, get supplies, get bottled water, get to a place to have a hot shower….EV owners were stuck. I was saying to my pal the other day, who remembers when you could run the older di
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Anyone who has an electric car should be thrown in the sea !
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Why wouldn’t you find pride in your own history, different times mate….if everyone was going about putting each other to the sword and stealing cattle then I’d be pretty proud of my ancestors if they were some of the best at it.
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I think, for good and bad as history proves, the British empire was surprisingly light touch in all its dealing wherever it was in the world…..so no, I wouldn’t argue that the British empire improved the things that you describe which is in fact how the famine happened. Wherever it went in the world it built and controlled the infrastructure and means of production, it created a system of law and order but it left well alone anything that it didn’t pay to meddle with….hence the famine, but also hence peoples ability to just live and prosper if they were lucky enough. A far cry f
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So my younger daughters boyfriend is almost uniquely a Protestant in his area, which is Sligo, and his name is Armstrong. Sligo is an hour from Fermanagh and Fermanagh is where lots of the Armstrong’s from Scotland were settled…..he has another family place between his house and Fermanagh. Stiffmeister has a great knowledge of the names from the border areas of England and Scotland, the history of the border reivers and it was he who gave me some history and pointed me in the right direction to find out more….. If you put aside the bad blood about various things, our histor
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I’m not talking about sectarianism, I’m talking the effect of Ulster Scots and British settlers on the infrastructure of ireland…..prejudice aside, modern Ireland doesn’t happen without them. As I said, I don’t know enough about the other stuff to give an accurate response.
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It was……to be more accurate anything advanced was. Upto partition, other than a scattered few castles and fortified houses, you can link almost all modernisation directly back to the arrival of Scottish and English settlers. Ireland was a clan system based on small communities of subsistence agriculture. All the historic industry, all the great houses, all the old railway stations, docks, crafted stone buildings, harbours like Newport, Westport have their roots in “Empire” for want of a better word…..all of that was imported from mainland Britain. It why they burned so man
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What did who build mate ?
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On the subject of history I heard an amazing stat the other day, it’s pretty hard to check the validity because the interweb is a mine field of garbage so it’s a bit like finding a needle in a haystack. But anyway, it was an academic type lad that was explaining this particular morsel so here it is: Upto 1930, something like 99% of all British people in Britain could have traced their linage/dna/ethnicity back directly to every British person in 930…..they were almost uniquely genetically unchanged ! I think that’s an amazing thing…..
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Stiffmeister has a massive knowledge of the history of the borders and Scotland, it’s one of his “go to” subjects and my comment was more from the point of it should be interesting to read two people chat about the subject mate.
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Oh I’m looking forward to this conversation !……..
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Travelling thousands of years before that brother, the burial cairns change distinctly as you come down the country from north to south…..the cairns in the north are the same as are to be found in Scotland and so they start to differ as you drop down because different British tribes travelled from the mainland to this island.
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Same as that, one I never forgot.
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Sounds like the career I’ve been looking for !
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The electorate ARE brain dead imbeciles !……is that even in doubt ?
