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  • RemingtonRemington I'll do anything for a woman with a knife.
    Posts: 1,534
  • edited March 2019 Posts: 3,566
    @Remington: Well, thanks for trying anyway.

    To respond to the notion that this thread has become "All Trump-bashing, all the time," I'd reply, no, there's some Trump bashing & some Trump defending. Maybe there are more people posting anti-Trump messages than there are people trying to defend him... but I suspect there's probably a good reason for that. Also, astute watchers may have noticed that my own posts are sometimes leavened with bits of (what passes for in these parts) humor and pop-culture references. This is entirely intentional, as Beatles do not live by politics alone. Heck, sometimes we even throw in some music...
  • CASINOROYALECASINOROYALE Somewhere hot
    Posts: 1,003
    I have a hard time believing that CNN ADVOCATED interracial "sharing." I'd like to see some confirmation of that. (Having an article that said "some people are doing this" is not at all ADVOCATING that everybody should do it.) And I live in California, where we have pretty open attitudes towards lots of things -- and I've never even HEARD of a trans dragon.

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    Three strikes is out, CASINO. Let's see some corroboration of your more outrageous claims, or I'm going to have to call bull$#!+.

    Google “CNN Cuckolding”

    ******************

    I will not go into explicit details of what cuckolding is but yeah that’s a no go.

    **************


    Trans dragons?

    Here you go...

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/broadly.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/kz5bxa/eva-tiamat-medusa-dragon-lady-transgender



    "Completely Texas" indeed.

    The first thing you need to understand, CASINO, is that CNN is not the Democrats' equivalent of FAUX FOX NEWS. FN was created by Roger Ailes, a long-time Republican media honcho, specifically to be a Republican propaganda machine. CNN exists to make money by reporting news. While they find it profitable to be the anti-Fox political equivalent for the folks who don't like Trump (an audience that is certainly out there, and deserves to be served) they also report on other stuff -- generally the more sensational the better, because sensation sells. Just because CNN has reported on cuckolding or a transgender lady who has fashioned her persona after an old character from "Terry and the Pirates" doesn't mean that these are practices that the entire Democratic Party has wholeheartedly embraced and intends to inflict on the entirety of America. It just means that CNN thinks they can get more viewers by running pieces like that. By the way, I do wish you had been a little more accurate with what you post. Your citing of "Trans Dragons" had me thinking initially of the likes of Smaug from The Hobbit or the dragons from Game of Thrones -- and I didn't really know whether whether or not those type of dragons even HAVE a sex, so I wondered, "how can they possibly be trans?" How disappointing to learn that it was just a reference to The Dragon Lady, a character you've probably never heard of, let alone seen on the printed page. (A shame, that -- Milton Caniff's "Terry" was at one time among the most popular comic strips in the daily newspapers.) Try to be a little more accurate in your ravings and maybe you won't generate so much disagreement...although I'm starting to believe that sowing discord is indeed your intent. There's a word for the sort of behavior, and the creatures who indulge in it live under bridges...

    And you’re completely from the mental hospital obviously LMAO...


    I am not talking about democrat voters I am talking about democrat senators and candidates.. You seem to completely ignore the crazy things I am pointing out from the current 2020 candidates.

    “Renewable energy can end racism”

    Please explain how that will end racism?




    I can give you a hundred more articles of people identifying as vampires, werewolves, people identifying as babies when they are in their 50s.

    So what’s to stop a kid who is 18 from saying he identifies as 21? Can he buy alcohol now? If he identifies as 21??

    My logic has always been that I really don’t care if you’re gay, bi, trans, lesbian etc but don’t force that on to me.

    Being gay and a man pretending to be a woman are two different things.

    “Completely Texas?”

    More like completely normal.

    I got a penis, I wake up at 5am everyday and go to work and do normal things that normal people do.

    Sue me. 8)
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
    Posts: 17,795
    I got a penis

    TMI, dude...
  • chrisisall wrote: »
    I got a penis

    TMI, dude...

    Some people just need to reassure themselves endlessly...
  • LeonardPineLeonardPine The Bar on the Beach
    Posts: 3,996
    Remington wrote: »

    Yeah nice try @Remington

    This was never started as a 'politics' thread. It's 'world events' which I can assume also includes natural disasters, plane crashes, terrorist attacks and alien landings...

    Don't know why you bothered, barryt007.
  • CommanderRossCommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea
    Posts: 8,253
    I have a hard time believing that CNN ADVOCATED interracial "sharing." I'd like to see some confirmation of that. (Having an article that said "some people are doing this" is not at all ADVOCATING that everybody should do it.) And I live in California, where we have pretty open attitudes towards lots of things -- and I've never even HEARD of a trans dragon.

    *******************

    Three strikes is out, CASINO. Let's see some corroboration of your more outrageous claims, or I'm going to have to call bull$#!+.

    Google “CNN Cuckolding”

    ******************

    I will not go into explicit details of what cuckolding is but yeah that’s a no go.

    **************


    Trans dragons?

    Here you go...

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/broadly.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/kz5bxa/eva-tiamat-medusa-dragon-lady-transgender



    "Completely Texas" indeed.

    The first thing you need to understand, CASINO, is that CNN is not the Democrats' equivalent of FAUX FOX NEWS. FN was created by Roger Ailes, a long-time Republican media honcho, specifically to be a Republican propaganda machine. CNN exists to make money by reporting news. While they find it profitable to be the anti-Fox political equivalent for the folks who don't like Trump (an audience that is certainly out there, and deserves to be served) they also report on other stuff -- generally the more sensational the better, because sensation sells. Just because CNN has reported on cuckolding or a transgender lady who has fashioned her persona after an old character from "Terry and the Pirates" doesn't mean that these are practices that the entire Democratic Party has wholeheartedly embraced and intends to inflict on the entirety of America. It just means that CNN thinks they can get more viewers by running pieces like that. By the way, I do wish you had been a little more accurate with what you post. Your citing of "Trans Dragons" had me thinking initially of the likes of Smaug from The Hobbit or the dragons from Game of Thrones -- and I didn't really know whether whether or not those type of dragons even HAVE a sex, so I wondered, "how can they possibly be trans?" How disappointing to learn that it was just a reference to The Dragon Lady, a character you've probably never heard of, let alone seen on the printed page. (A shame, that -- Milton Caniff's "Terry" was at one time among the most popular comic strips in the daily newspapers.) Try to be a little more accurate in your ravings and maybe you won't generate so much disagreement...although I'm starting to believe that sowing discord is indeed your intent. There's a word for the sort of behavior, and the creatures who indulge in it live under bridges...

    And you’re completely from the mental hospital obviously LMAO...
    Now now, we can do without personal insults.
    I am not talking about democrat voters I am talking about democrat senators and candidates.. You seem to completely ignore the crazy things I am pointing out from the current 2020 candidates.
    Nope, you were talking about 'democrats' which by it's definition means (in the USA) any member of the democratic party.
    “Renewable energy can end racism”

    Please explain how that will end racism?

    She's saying it'll help end 'economic, social and racial injustice'. The idea is that if people from all backgrounds get a fair chance at economic prosperity then racism will dissapear, as it's often the most poor who are discriminated against (and of a certain colour). So your 'quote' isn't really what she says, you're making it a shortcut. If it'll work is another issue.
    I can give you a hundred more articles of people identifying as vampires, werewolves, people identifying as babies when they are in their 50s.
    And I can find hundreds, thousands of articles telling how all who voted for Trump are gun-toting KKK members who abuse their children. Doesn't make it the truth now does it. That's the internet for you.

    My logic has always been that I really don’t care if you’re gay, bi, trans, lesbian etc but don’t force that on to me.
    As far as I understand nobody is forcing anything on you. So why mention it? And why claim CNN is forcing it on people? I read CNN (and FOX) almost every day, but they've never forced me to cuckold or anything else for that matter.

    I've been to Mexico and yes, the gang violence is definately as bad as you say in some places there. That's why you have so many illigal immigrants in the first place, they're fleeing the violence. It was Trump who didn't want a deal to stop them coming in because it meant giving the dreamers a chance to stay. A wall from coast to coast won't stop the violence, it won't stop people trying to find asylumn in the USA and it certainly won't stop the drug cartels.

    Oh, ad that Bernie Sanders video, he's just telling what he saw, and he was impressed. Rightfully so, Moscow is a beautiful city with many beautiful buildings and the communist had an education system second to none. My wife is from a former soviet republic and I can tell you this: I wish our schooling system was that good, and we consider ours to be a lot better than the one the USA has.
    It's not like the Soviets would show American visitors the workers in the factories or the famine stricken countryside, just as much as your President isn't showing the slums of Philadelphia to foreign visitors......
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
    Posts: 17,795
    I have a hard time believing that CNN ADVOCATED interracial "sharing." I'd like to see some confirmation of that. (Having an article that said "some people are doing this" is not at all ADVOCATING that everybody should do it.) And I live in California, where we have pretty open attitudes towards lots of things -- and I've never even HEARD of a trans dragon.

    *******************

    Three strikes is out, CASINO. Let's see some corroboration of your more outrageous claims, or I'm going to have to call bull$#!+.

    Google “CNN Cuckolding”

    ******************

    I will not go into explicit details of what cuckolding is but yeah that’s a no go.

    **************


    Trans dragons?

    Here you go...

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/broadly.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/kz5bxa/eva-tiamat-medusa-dragon-lady-transgender



    "Completely Texas" indeed.

    The first thing you need to understand, CASINO, is that CNN is not the Democrats' equivalent of FAUX FOX NEWS. FN was created by Roger Ailes, a long-time Republican media honcho, specifically to be a Republican propaganda machine. CNN exists to make money by reporting news. While they find it profitable to be the anti-Fox political equivalent for the folks who don't like Trump (an audience that is certainly out there, and deserves to be served) they also report on other stuff -- generally the more sensational the better, because sensation sells. Just because CNN has reported on cuckolding or a transgender lady who has fashioned her persona after an old character from "Terry and the Pirates" doesn't mean that these are practices that the entire Democratic Party has wholeheartedly embraced and intends to inflict on the entirety of America. It just means that CNN thinks they can get more viewers by running pieces like that. By the way, I do wish you had been a little more accurate with what you post. Your citing of "Trans Dragons" had me thinking initially of the likes of Smaug from The Hobbit or the dragons from Game of Thrones -- and I didn't really know whether whether or not those type of dragons even HAVE a sex, so I wondered, "how can they possibly be trans?" How disappointing to learn that it was just a reference to The Dragon Lady, a character you've probably never heard of, let alone seen on the printed page. (A shame, that -- Milton Caniff's "Terry" was at one time among the most popular comic strips in the daily newspapers.) Try to be a little more accurate in your ravings and maybe you won't generate so much disagreement...although I'm starting to believe that sowing discord is indeed your intent. There's a word for the sort of behavior, and the creatures who indulge in it live under bridges...

    And you’re completely from the mental hospital obviously LMAO...
    Now now, we can do without personal insults.
    I am not talking about democrat voters I am talking about democrat senators and candidates.. You seem to completely ignore the crazy things I am pointing out from the current 2020 candidates.
    Nope, you were talking about 'democrats' which by it's definition means (in the USA) any member of the democratic party.
    “Renewable energy can end racism”

    Please explain how that will end racism?

    She's saying it'll help end 'economic, social and racial injustice'. The idea is that if people from all backgrounds get a fair chance at economic prosperity then racism will dissapear, as it's often the most poor who are discriminated against (and of a certain colour). So your 'quote' isn't really what she says, you're making it a shortcut. If it'll work is another issue.
    I can give you a hundred more articles of people identifying as vampires, werewolves, people identifying as babies when they are in their 50s.
    And I can find hundreds, thousands of articles telling how all who voted for Trump are gun-toting KKK members who abuse their children. Doesn't make it the truth now does it. That's the internet for you.

    My logic has always been that I really don’t care if you’re gay, bi, trans, lesbian etc but don’t force that on to me.
    As far as I understand nobody is forcing anything on you. So why mention it? And why claim CNN is forcing it on people? I read CNN (and FOX) almost every day, but they've never forced me to cuckold or anything else for that matter.

    I've been to Mexico and yes, the gang violence is definately as bad as you say in some places there. That's why you have so many illigal immigrants in the first place, they're fleeing the violence. It was Trump who didn't want a deal to stop them coming in because it meant giving the dreamers a chance to stay. A wall from coast to coast won't stop the violence, it won't stop people trying to find asylumn in the USA and it certainly won't stop the drug cartels.

    Oh, ad that Bernie Sanders video, he's just telling what he saw, and he was impressed. Rightfully so, Moscow is a beautiful city with many beautiful buildings and the communist had an education system second to none. My wife is from a former soviet republic and I can tell you this: I wish our schooling system was that good, and we consider ours to be a lot better than the one the USA has.
    It's not like the Soviets would show American visitors the workers in the factories or the famine stricken countryside, just as much as your President isn't showing the slums of Philadelphia to foreign visitors......

    @CommanderRoss, not only do you have the patience of a saint in carefully replying to your fellow misguided human, you do it with a level of respect I could not myself find within me. Excellent post, sir.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    I second that, well done, @CommanderRoss.
  • 4EverBonded4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars
    edited March 2019 Posts: 12,480
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    I will post only bigger, more impactful news in the future as far as American politics go.
  • Agent007391Agent007391 Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start
    Posts: 7,854
    Just another shout to @CommanderRoss for his post. I couldn't be that articulate if I tried.
  • I'll third it or fourth it or fifth it. Whichever. Good job @CommanderRoss!
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    Blimey my thread has changed in tone !
  • Posts: 19,339
    Awful news x not a lot of news in yet.
  • CASINOROYALECASINOROYALE Somewhere hot
    edited March 2019 Posts: 1,003
    I have a hard time believing that CNN ADVOCATED interracial "sharing." I'd like to see some confirmation of that. (Having an article that said "some people are doing this" is not at all ADVOCATING that everybody should do it.) And I live in California, where we have pretty open attitudes towards lots of things -- and I've never even HEARD of a trans dragon.

    *******************

    Three strikes is out, CASINO. Let's see some corroboration of your more outrageous claims, or I'm going to have to call bull$#!+.

    Google “CNN Cuckolding”

    ******************

    I will not go into explicit details of what cuckolding is but yeah that’s a no go.

    **************


    Trans dragons?

    Here you go...

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/broadly.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/kz5bxa/eva-tiamat-medusa-dragon-lady-transgender



    "Completely Texas" indeed.

    The first thing you need to understand, CASINO, is that CNN is not the Democrats' equivalent of FAUX FOX NEWS. FN was created by Roger Ailes, a long-time Republican media honcho, specifically to be a Republican propaganda machine. CNN exists to make money by reporting news. While they find it profitable to be the anti-Fox political equivalent for the folks who don't like Trump (an audience that is certainly out there, and deserves to be served) they also report on other stuff -- generally the more sensational the better, because sensation sells. Just because CNN has reported on cuckolding or a transgender lady who has fashioned her persona after an old character from "Terry and the Pirates" doesn't mean that these are practices that the entire Democratic Party has wholeheartedly embraced and intends to inflict on the entirety of America. It just means that CNN thinks they can get more viewers by running pieces like that. By the way, I do wish you had been a little more accurate with what you post. Your citing of "Trans Dragons" had me thinking initially of the likes of Smaug from The Hobbit or the dragons from Game of Thrones -- and I didn't really know whether whether or not those type of dragons even HAVE a sex, so I wondered, "how can they possibly be trans?" How disappointing to learn that it was just a reference to The Dragon Lady, a character you've probably never heard of, let alone seen on the printed page. (A shame, that -- Milton Caniff's "Terry" was at one time among the most popular comic strips in the daily newspapers.) Try to be a little more accurate in your ravings and maybe you won't generate so much disagreement...although I'm starting to believe that sowing discord is indeed your intent. There's a word for the sort of behavior, and the creatures who indulge in it live under bridges...

    And you’re completely from the mental hospital obviously LMAO...
    Now now, we can do without personal insults.
    I am not talking about democrat voters I am talking about democrat senators and candidates.. You seem to completely ignore the crazy things I am pointing out from the current 2020 candidates.
    Nope, you were talking about 'democrats' which by it's definition means (in the USA) any member of the democratic party.
    “Renewable energy can end racism”

    Please explain how that will end racism?

    She's saying it'll help end 'economic, social and racial injustice'. The idea is that if people from all backgrounds get a fair chance at economic prosperity then racism will dissapear, as it's often the most poor who are discriminated against (and of a certain colour). So your 'quote' isn't really what she says, you're making it a shortcut. If it'll work is another issue.
    I can give you a hundred more articles of people identifying as vampires, werewolves, people identifying as babies when they are in their 50s.
    And I can find hundreds, thousands of articles telling how all who voted for Trump are gun-toting KKK members who abuse their children. Doesn't make it the truth now does it. That's the internet for you.

    My logic has always been that I really don’t care if you’re gay, bi, trans, lesbian etc but don’t force that on to me.
    As far as I understand nobody is forcing anything on you. So why mention it? And why claim CNN is forcing it on people? I read CNN (and FOX) almost every day, but they've never forced me to cuckold or anything else for that matter.

    I've been to Mexico and yes, the gang violence is definately as bad as you say in some places there. That's why you have so many illigal immigrants in the first place, they're fleeing the violence. It was Trump who didn't want a deal to stop them coming in because it meant giving the dreamers a chance to stay. A wall from coast to coast won't stop the violence, it won't stop people trying to find asylumn in the USA and it certainly won't stop the drug cartels.

    Oh, ad that Bernie Sanders video, he's just telling what he saw, and he was impressed. Rightfully so, Moscow is a beautiful city with many beautiful buildings and the communist had an education system second to none. My wife is from a former soviet republic and I can tell you this: I wish our schooling system was that good, and we consider ours to be a lot better than the one the USA has.
    It's not like the Soviets would show American visitors the workers in the factories or the famine stricken countryside, just as much as your President isn't showing the slums of Philadelphia to foreign visitors......

    Obviously a major bigot and a racist.

    No point replying to a bunch of bigoted racists in this thread. Very sickening you guys post conspiracy theories without factual information which is highly dangerous and if you guys are going to throw out insults then be prepared to get some insults back what a joke...

    Yes I guess it’s racist when you guys live in your fantasy land up north or Europe and don’t experience the border, cartel and other drug/gang issues.

    Keep drinking the kool aid though. I am involved with my local government and actually making a difference. I don’t watch Fox or CNN.

    You want to know how they the LGBQT+ affects me?

    In Texas there was a huge fight over the bathroom law.

    They actually allowed you to use whatever bathroom you choose.

    Shocker when a 40 year old male who identifies as a woman (no sex change), raped and sexually assaulted women on a regular basis at a target..

    It’s not safe for my Mom, my sister or my girlfriend to use the women’s bathroom right now. Not uncommon to see men in the women’s restrooms who use that to perv on women..

    Like I said though I really don’t care what anyone is but when you start allowing men to openly use the women’s bathroom?


    AOC... HA!!

    1) Socialist Ocasio-Cortez confronted with booming economy & low unemployment numbers.
    She says "Unemployment is low because everyone has two jobs” and "Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.”

    2) “There’s three “chambers” of congre…er…government. The Senate, the House, and the one with the president. I’m gonna stop now, otherwise I run the risk of looking like I don’t know what I’m talking about.” -AOC-

    Keep in mind, this lass with a sub-middle school understanding of civics is going to be lording over you for the next two years. But likely the rest of her life because she’s a socialist from New York.

    3) Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) may be in trouble following accusations that she and her chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabarti, violated campaign finance laws. If the claims are true, she could be facing jail time, according to one lawyer.

    “These are serious and troubling allegations," attorney Gayle Trotter said on Tuesday, "And if they’re true, they could result in serious consequences, including jail time.”



    4)Four Pinocchio’s for lying https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/12/04/alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-trillion-mistake/?utm_term=.c2b8e8019f94

    5) “Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is facing ethics questions after revelations the freshman lawmaker's office gave her boyfriend a congressional email account.

    The democratic socialist waded into the issue in response to a tweet alleging boyfriend Riley Roberts had been put on staff. The tweet included a screenshot of an official House email address. Ocasio-Cortez insisted that he was only given the email account so he could access her calendar.“

    ^^

    *cue the slow claps for such a great response where you dodged every question about how the crazy democrats support batshit crazy ideas that don’t even affect you”

    You really got me so good!



    Also here’s a great read again from the Washington post (hope that’s not a fake news conspiracy site like you guys claim).


    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/politics/wp/2018/06/14/how-the-two-rogue-fbi-officials-explain-their-text-messages-about-trump/

    The corrupt FBI at it again^


    I have provided factual information from very good sources. I am very open to having productive conversations with actual meaning. If some of you just want to shout “fake news”, “must be a conspiracy” etc etc then I don’t even need to respond to your stupidity or your dumb insults.


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    All 189 passengers and 8 crew are killed in the crash x can we put the American politics on hold and discuss what my thread was designed for ?
  • CASINOROYALECASINOROYALE Somewhere hot
    Posts: 1,003
    barryt007 wrote: »
    All 189 passengers and 8 crew are killed in the crash x can we put the American politics on hold and discuss what my thread was designed for ?

    The thread should be locked at this point it’s just an American bashing/Trump hate thread.

    Which is unfortunate.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    Posts: 24,179
    @CASINOROYALE
    The thread doesn't have to be locked, sir. @barryt007 has been trying for nearly half a page now to guide this thread in a different direction.
  • CASINOROYALECASINOROYALE Somewhere hot
    Posts: 1,003
    DarthDimi wrote: »
    @CASINOROYALE
    The thread doesn't have to be locked, sir. @barryt007 has been trying for nearly half a page now to guide this thread in a different direction.

    I try to be civil but when you’re getting ganged up on and constantly attacked.. Name calling etc then that’s when the mods need to step in and start deleting comments and to give out warnings.

    I am probably one of the few members who has been here for 13 years now on MI6 and the mods have always been good about stepping in and stopping the name calling/personal attacks.

    I’ll admit I got a little carried away and shouldn’t have responded.

    Although lurking on here for the past 6 months and not posting has shown me this thread is just a Trump bashing thread. Personal opinions and conversations are one thing but it got way out of hand.



  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    Posts: 24,179
    @CASINOROYALE
    You are correct, sir; we probably should step in a little faster in the case of namecalling and such. Anti-Trump or pro-Trump opinions are, however, merely opinions. If the thread looks like a Trump bashing fest, well then that's an indication of more members having negative feelings towards the man than positive ones. Obviously, there's little we can do about that or want to do about that.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
    Posts: 17,795
    barryt007 wrote: »
    All 189 passengers and 8 crew are killed in the crash x can we put the American politics on hold and discuss what my thread was designed for ?

    Same type of new plane as the last crash. This seems strange... sorry for the victims. I'm sure investigations will be turned up here.
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    Among the dead are five Dutch people so it wil be followed in our nation very closely too.
    What a sad moment.
  • edited March 2019 Posts: 19,339
    chrisisall wrote: »
    barryt007 wrote: »
    All 189 passengers and 8 crew are killed in the crash x can we put the American politics on hold and discuss what my thread was designed for ?

    Same type of new plane as the last crash. This seems strange... sorry for the victims. I'm sure investigations will be turned up here.

    It’s a new version of the 737 ,only delivered in 2016.

    7 British citizens on board as well.
    SaintMark wrote: »
    Among the dead are five Dutch people so it wil be followed in our nation very closely too.
    What a sad moment.

  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
    Posts: 40,968
    Horrible news to wake up too, nearly 200 lost in the blink of an eye from just one crash.
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
    Posts: 9,028
    Boeing seems to have a problem...if not in terms of technology, at least in terms of publicity. Same type of NEW 737 that crashed a few months ago in Indonesia.

    A long time ago, American Friends of mine living in Hamburg flew back to the States from here on Pan Am 103, with a stopover at Heathrow. If they had chosen Pan Am 101 the same day instead, they would have ended up at Lockerbie.
  • 4EverBonded4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars
    edited March 2019 Posts: 12,480
    So sorry to hear of this. It's affected several countries, I think.



    Only 6 mins. after take-off. I want to stick to trains more than ever, though I used to never be afraid to fly.
  • CommanderRossCommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea
    Posts: 8,253
    That's certainly very sad news. The 5 Dutch turned out to be German. Other than that it's a big problem for Boeing. I understand the Lion Air MAX8 doce into the sea due to a sensor giving the wrong information. If a similar thing happened here.. Anyway, way to early to speculate.

    @CASINOROYALE It's really beyond me why you call me 'a major bigot and a racist'. All I did was try to discuss in a civil manner, that my post is appreciated by others is nice to know, but shouldn't interfere with a normal discussion or put pressure on any party now should it? As a fellow long-standing member of this site (also joined in 2006) it would be nice not to be insulted in such a manner.
  • 4EverBonded4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars
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  • CommanderRossCommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea
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    Just read something on Norway - besides Bond 25 shooting there (yes!!), they seem to be partially divesting from oil/gas. Interesting as their major wealth was built on that. Seems to be only partial step, though. I'd like to know how our Norwegian members feel about this.
    https://www.newscientist.com/article/2196024-norway-is-starting-the-worlds-biggest-divestment-in-oil-and-gas/

    It's an interesting move. The Norwegians have been smart enough to put the profits of their oil- and gas exploration into a state fund which in turn is used to bankroll eduacation and innovation. AFAK it's this fund that has large shares in all the oil-and gas companies that exploit the Norwegian natural resources. Apparently they're confident the oil prices, (and thus stocks) will fall as more reneweable energy is used. Therefore they're going to diversify.
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    My thread has seriously become detached from the World Events I intented x It’s been American hijacked x a plane load of people died today peeps!!
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