Author Topic: Is Blair going to win it three straight? (Read 3053 times)

beet1e · « **Reply #150 on:** May 06, 2005, 11:34:36 AM »

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Originally posted by Habu
BTW this language filter is draconian. I said TU*D not SH*T.

You can spell that word with a ü - (Alt + 0252 on the numeric keypad) I got away with it a couple of times, before I realised how much it pisses skuzzy off when the language filter is bypassed.

beet1e · « **Reply #151 on:** May 06, 2005, 11:38:48 AM »

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Originally posted by lazs2
There would be no point in teaching anyone where NZ is tho. If we ever want to go on vacation there and scuba dive or such... the travel agent will get us there.

Yes, but it's in a very remote place. Not many planes have the range to get there. But the A380 will be OK of course.

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Monk · « **Reply #152 on:** May 06, 2005, 11:48:57 AM »

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Originally posted by beet1e
Yes, but it's in a very remote place. Not many planes have the range to get there. But the A380 will be OK of course.

But you could never land it on such a small place.

Toad · « **Reply #153 on:** May 06, 2005, 12:00:44 PM »

Nor, I suspect, would you see the difference between having a government selected at all levels from amongst various and disparate political parties by voters freely exercising universal franchise and having a government selected from a single choice offered by a dictatorial and autocratic state by voters with no other recourse that only vote for the lowest political positions.

bob149 · « **Reply #154 on:** May 06, 2005, 12:04:37 PM »

beet1e · « **Reply #155 on:** May 06, 2005, 12:13:51 PM »

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Originally posted by Monk
But you could never land it on such a small place.

ROFL! Nice troll, but wrong.

Directors' Report from Auckland International Airport Limited

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To ensure Auckland is A380-capable, the airport will widen its main runway by 7.5 metres on either side.

Auckland is a little village in NZ, by the way.

Monk · « **Reply #156 on:** May 06, 2005, 12:24:35 PM »

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Originally posted by beet1e

Auckland is a little village in NZ, by the way.

NZ?.....NB is Nebraska, ND is North Dakota. You don't mean NY do you? Maybe Jersey, NJ.

beet1e · « **Reply #157 on:** May 06, 2005, 12:27:18 PM »

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Originally posted by Momus--
He was very clever if not cynical in the consituency he chose to contest, Bow and Bethnal Green in East London. Large muslim population, the sitting member being Oona King, one of the few black women in parliament and who was known as having supported the Iraq war and for being a Blair loyalist. He will have attracted a huge anti-war vote and no doubt some votes from the more fundamentalist Muslims in the area who had a problem with a woman representing them.

I don't think it was the fact Oona is a woman that led to this result. In 2001, she won the seat with a majority of 10,000+. That was/should have been a safe Labour seat. I'm absolutely amazed by the Bethnal Green result this time. It just has to be a backlash against the Iraq war.

beet1e · « **Reply #158 on:** May 06, 2005, 12:30:00 PM »

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Originally posted by Monk
NZ?.....NB is Nebraska, ND is North Dakota. You don't mean NY do you? Maybe Jersey, NJ.

LOL - it probably isn't on any maps sold in the US. Oh wait, you're in Germany...

Replicant · « **Reply #159 on:** May 06, 2005, 01:59:51 PM »

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Originally posted by beet1e
You can spell that word with a ü - (Alt + 0252 on the numeric keypad) I got away with it a couple of times, before I realised how much it pisses skuzzy off when the language filter is bypassed.

Beetle, quicker way is to use the ASCII code Alt 129 ü

DREDIOCK · « **Reply #160 on:** May 06, 2005, 02:27:14 PM »

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Originally posted by bob149
How much bigger can the taxes get ?
Looks like im staying out here for quite soem time ....oh well

Well they might want to try their own version of the Boston Tea Party.

Seemed to work well for us.

For a while anyway:)

Wotan · « **Reply #161 on:** May 06, 2005, 02:34:23 PM »

How did the BNP and NF fair?

Dowding · « **Reply #162 on:** May 06, 2005, 02:40:20 PM »

NF no longer exists. Renamed BNP, the same way Windscale was renamed Sellafield after a certain mishap with some fire and some control rods and a plutonium production reactor.

They made some gains, but I don't think they won any seats. They usually get a thousand votes in a constituency of around 30,000.

Torque · « **Reply #163 on:** May 06, 2005, 02:46:05 PM »

crooks and liars mostly, the honest ones that can't be bought are sold.

best to keep them congregated in one area.

-dead- · « **Reply #164 on:** May 06, 2005, 03:26:15 PM »

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Originally posted by Toad
Nor, I suspect, would you see the difference between having a government selected at all levels from amongst various and disparate political parties by voters freely exercising universal franchise and having a government selected from a single choice offered by a dictatorial and autocratic state by voters with no other recourse that only vote for the lowest political positions.

Not if the net result is the same, no.

And let's not forget that one half of the UK parliament is not elected at all.