I'd rather have the guy that recognises brutal dictators than have someone like MDH, de Valera or Obama who offers condolences.
I was in Florida few weeks ago had dinner with my friends parents who were Cuban born. The man fled as his family has wealth every asset was taken off the family. His wife fled though operation Peter Pan both have never been back. They today I hope are having a session people blest on about the great health service etc great live longer in an impoverished state.
electrical warning sign popped up on car last night. brake light stayed on a bit longer than expected. sure it'll be grand i'll sort it tomorrow. Car is dead this morning, so much so the physical key can't even open it, cannot get the bonnet open.typical portuguese customer service as the tow truck driver saying he will tow it to his garage but not to the skoda one and then i have to pay him to tow it to skoda tomorrow.
Opened a new account with Bet10, managed to back a winner and made a withdrawal. Got the usual KYC request for passport and utility bill, which I duly mailed over to them.
Just got back a reply with:
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Moreover, please provide us with:
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What the what? Lebanese hostage circa 1982.
"We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
Opened a new account with Bet10, managed to back a winner and made a withdrawal. Got the usual KYC request for passport and utility bill, which I duly mailed over to them.
Just got back a reply with:
What the what? Lebanese hostage circa 1982.
Dear god photoshop your id in place of this paper and send in
I'd rather have the guy that recognises brutal dictators than have someone like MDH, de Valera or Obama who offers condolences.
The Cuba story is just not as simple as the caricatures the Wall street libertarians and Cuban ex pats have sold you.
Never mind that though, you actually think piece of sub literate moronic Fox news headline copy is preferable to a calm reasoned diplomatic and articulate assessment of someone who has been one of the most significant players in world politics for 50 years.
The Cuba story is just not as simple as the caricatures the Wall street libertarians and Cuban ex pats have sold you.
Never mind that though, you actually think piece of sub literate moronic Fox news headline copy is preferable to a calm reasoned diplomatic and articulate assessment of someone who has been one of the most significant players in world politics for 50 years.
This is the new normal.
C'mon SP. You can't denounce Trump as the worst person elected since Hitler, and then just describe a man who murdered and tortured his own people as just a significant player.
The Cuba story is just not as simple as the caricatures the Wall street libertarians and Cuban ex pats have sold you.
Never mind that though, you actually think piece of sub literate moronic Fox news headline copy is preferable to a calm reasoned diplomatic and articulate assessment of someone who has been one of the most significant players in world politics for 50 years.
This is the new normal.
This is a bit rich considering your constant reduction of the NI conflict to evil murdering Adams V the kindly exasperated Brits
C'mon SP. You can't denounce Trump as the worst person elected since Hitler, and then just describe a man who murdered and tortured his own people as just a significant player.
You still get plenty on the left who think Stalin wasn't all that bad
"We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
C'mon SP. You can't denounce Trump as the worst person elected since Hitler, and then just describe a man who murdered and tortured his own people as just a significant player.
That castro was a significant player in world politics would be a fact.
The logical relationship between that fact and anyone's opinion of trump would be exactly nil.
Was it only when trump came along that you started unashamedly making stuff up as the main thrust of your argument s
That Obama phone drop one is delicious.was there ever a president before as willing as he was to go on useless comedy American chat show and yuck it up with fawning hosts.
Family are staying quiet, sheriff said they are allowing then some 'quiet time' and have some details they haven't yet released (well I guess they would either way).
Just rumours that the racist post is attributed to her - can't be certain yet obv. Also a rumour that she tried to stage an abduction in 2006, again, just hearsay thus far.
X can be anything, any number, that is what’s CRAZY about X.
Because X doesn’t roll like that, because X can’t be pinned down!
That castro was a significant player in world politics would be a fact.
The logical relationship between that fact and anyone's opinion of trump would be exactly nil.
Was it only when trump came along that you started unashamedly making stuff up as the main thrust of your argument s
Wasn't disputing that fact, just confused why you'd rather have a president send condolences than describe him as he was, a brutal murderer. Presume you wouldn't want the same for Gerry?
Wasn't disputing that fact, just confused why you'd rather have a president send condolences than describe him as he was, a brutal murderer. Presume you wouldn't want the same for Gerry?
I didn't say you were disputing the fact I said you were trying to create some sort of inference by comparing an undisputed fact with an unrelated opinion expressed about something no more than tangentially related.
Have you lost the ability to reason.
On that happy day when Adams dies roaring from something deservedly horribly painful, I'm sure my opinion, being of no consequence at all, will be expressed in terms similar to the inflammatory rhetoric Trump uses about Castro.
I would hope and expect that POTUS, and all serious players in the realpolitilk would at least conceal their utter contempt for him in suitably diplomatic terms so as not to inflame the situation he will have left behind him.
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They are gentle 'sorry about your loss, he was a great lad, we're still good on reforming yeah?' messages to encourage him to continue going in the direction he is going.
This I'd imagine.
Seems odd to take any sort of public statement of condolence at face value.
One of Castro's former lovers, Marita Lorenz, was also recruited. She was given poison pills to put in Castro's drink.
But Castro found out about the attempt and is said to have handed her his gun to use instead.
"You can't kill me. Nobody can kill me," he said, Ms Lorenz told the New York Daily News. "And he kind of smiled and chewed on his cigar. I felt deflated. He was so sure of me. He just grabbed me. We made love."
She left the island and joined anti-Castro activists in Florida. Her later testimony named Francisco Fiorini as the CIA agent who recruited her to assassinate Castro, and that this was an alias for Frank Fiorini Sturgis. She received poison pills that she was to put in Castro's food. Back in Cuba in 1960, she did not deliver the pills but told Castro about the plot, claiming that she still loved him.
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Do one useful thing today* and help me decide whether to go for the regular Chromecast vs the new Chromecast Ultra. Don't particularly want to spend the extra €40 compared to the regular one and also don't particularly mind spending it if worthwhile.
*you can all take the day off after sorting this out. I've spoken to your bosses.
Wouldn't bother with the ultra unless you have or plan to get a 4k TV soon.
Haven't touched a drop in a week, actually, fair play Hitch, 3 months is a fantastic achievement. I like to take a break every now and then to prove to myself that i can.
I have the first of the xmas nights out tomorrow night and am really looking forward to having a few beers, usually on a monday morning i would be sick of it.
People say I should be more humble I hope they understand, they don't listen when you mumble
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