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Quote: from Racing Daily on 10:10 pm on Sep. 1, 2005[br]
Now that the oil companies and the OPEC nations have conditioned us to think that the cost of a litre is sensibly priced at whatever rate they charge,
The last time I looked petrol was retailing for around 1.08 euro per litre in Ireland. 91p Sterling equals about 1.27 euro. The UK is an oil producer, Ireland isn’t. Why is petrol nearly 20% more expensive in the UK than here? We buy our petrol from the same companies.
Maybe it’s Gordon Brown you need to be harrassing, not the oil companies?
Quote: from lollys mate on 6:55 pm on Aug. 23, 2005[br]
And by the way, I’m sure that you poo aswell.
<br>Indeed I do, lolly, but I don’t feel the need to post it on the internet when I do – especially a racing forum! I’m sure there are forums whose members would be far more interested in your bowel movements than most on here.
Quote: from lollys mate on 7:09 pm on Aug. 22, 2005[br] <br> <br>Were talking 2005. not 1900.
Lolly – we’re not talking 1975 either. Britain is a different place than when you grew up with mummy and daddy and there’s no going back.
As an outsider, I’d have to say that the face of British thuggery is not black or asian but a p**s
ed-up white bloke with a Union Jack somewhere about his clothing.How did toilet training go for you, btw? You remind me of my son was he was about three and he’d just been toilet trained. He was so proud he’d let everybody within earshot know he was off for a dump. Is your bowel control a recently acquired skill?
Quote: from lollys mate on 8:26 pm on Aug. 16, 2005[br]
Its a shame that you have to be driven out of the place you have been brought up in though, dont you think.
The choice I have is…….
Move away from my family or possibly, very possibly have to deal with the low life scum that are given free housing and  the right to do what they want, when they want.
Shame init!<br>
Lolly’s Mate,
I couldn’t agree more. When the British colonised Ireland, they took the land from the Irish people and gave it to settlers (a right shower of louts, by most accounts), they deported thousands of Irish to other colonies, did little as two million Irish died of starvation and another two million had to emigrate to survive. It was also illegal to speak your native language, practice your religion or receive an education.
You have my sympathies………..
Sit through five hours of that crap? A ten second clip of "The Office" or "Fawlty Towers" has more originality and genius than every episode of that muck Razeen mentions put togther.
Part of today’s IRA statement –
"The leadership of Oglaigh na hEireann (the IRA) has formally ordered an end to the armed campaign. This will take effect from 4pm this afternoon. All IRA units have been ordered to dump arms. All volunteers have been instructed to assist the development of purely political and democratic programmes through exclusively peaceful means. Volunteers must not engage in any other activities whatsoever."
Isn’t it ironic that at almost the same time as one terrorist organisation that has scourged these islands for the past 35 years decides to call it a day, another one comes along to take it’s place?
"The right to leave" must be a new concept. I don’t think it was enjoyed by the many thousands sent there on prison ships.
Wit wrote –
"They end up with a double life, strangers both to their parents and the country they live in"
I saw this first hand on a visit to England a few years back. I got talking to the young, English/Pakistani lad who was serving breakfast in the hotel.
He was a useful cricketer apparently and had toured Pakistan playing for the England schoolboys. That he had done this now seemed to him like an act of treachery against the country he now saw as his motherland.
Something had happened to this kid’s mindset in the years between the time he set off (no doubt proudly) to play for England against Pakistan and to how he now felt.
I had an interesting conversation with the chap. I felt he spoke to me more openly as an Irishman than he would speak to an English person. Maybe this was because of the past history between Ireland and England and he reckoned an Irish person would be more sympathetic to his views.
Anyway, while he was talking I realised I’d heard all of this before. Switch a few key proper nouns and I could’ve been talking to any kid from Ireland who was sympathetic to the views of the Provisional IRA.
The breeding ground for IRA volunteers over the past 30 years has been the youth from deprived, working class areas of the North (and sometimes the republic) where police harrassment, unemployment and all sorts of other social problems are concentrated.
If this kids feelings are widespread among the Asian community then there’ll be any number of volunteers ready to take the place of the suicide bombers killed in London.
"Work for the caliphate", Hizb tells its recruits. "The caliphate will restore honour to your mothers and sisters" "
The IRA message is similar "Work for us and we’ll restore honour to your motherland by kicking the Brits out"
My feeling as to what drives somebody to join a terrorist organisation is not the "high ideals" professed by that organisation but baser things. In the case of a young British Pakistani it could be one too many Bernard Manning Paki jokes, one too many racially motived beatings-up, one too many job refusals……<br>
Sorry Ian,
I should’ve put that in inverted commas. It was answer to LM’s previous question of "what is it you now know?" (he actually said "old chum" but I’d like to put it on record that I am NOT Lolly’s mate never mind "chum" )
I prefer my reggae black and I’m not that fussed about what colour my country is.
(Edited by ACR1 at 1:17 am on July 21, 2005)<br>
(Edited by ACR1 at 1:18 am on July 21, 2005)
Quote: from lollys mate on 8:33 pm on July 15, 2005[br]
Sorry, but I forgot to mention the greatest band I have ever seen live are going there aswell. UB40 will be, hopefully performing whilst Im there
I always wondered what sort of person liked the sanitised reggae that shower have been playing for years…………now I know.
Have UB40 ever had an original idea?
I think the "Eurovision" episode has turned out to be quite prophetic as the songs we send don’t even qualify for the main competiton these days.
