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Phil & Krusty Back on Our Screens
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F k me they are showing it again tonight...... lard ar5e hasn't been to the gym since last night....... Porker :rotfl:
Just posted on their site, bet it doesn't appear though.I came in to this world with nothing and I've still got most of it left. :rolleyes:0 -
The Allies will find out the hard way like the Russians in Afghanistan, you can win a war against an enemy but not an ideology.
There were an awful lot of missed opportunities in Afghanistan.
When the Taliban took over in Kabul 1996, they were broadly welcomed. Since the Russians left, and in particular since the Najibullah govt. fell in the early 90s, everything was absolute chaos and anarchy.
By contrast, the Taliban calmed things down a lot, controlled crime, cut opium production, made things a lot safer. So they were accepted by a lot of people.
But their welcome wore out. Daft things they did really damaged society, such as banning women from working as doctors / midwives etc, then banning women from intimate medical treatment from men. Infant mortality, always high, rocketed, as did maternal deaths in childbirth.
So a lot of Afghans were not exactly devastated to see the back of them. Certainly, there was a lot of oppostion to the Allied forces - Afghans don't like being invaded. But there was a window of opportunity there. Had there been a massive building programme, education, hospitals, roads, electricity, etc, that would have helped public support a lot. But it didn't happen, and the Taliban's popularity (or rather, the neo-Taliban's) has grown a lot....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
Battersea was also known (by idiots) as South Chelsea. As in Saaaf Chelsea Dogs 'ome.
I also heard the Isle of Dogs called the Isle des Chiens.
My Dad and godfather lived in student digs in what they enjoy calling "West West Hampstead", AKA Kilburn....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
bo_drinker wrote: »F k me they are showing it again tonight...... lard ar5e hasn't been to the gym since last night....... Porker
To be fair, she's only just had a baby - a lot of women aren't at their slimmest just then....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
Afghanistan's traditional Islamic culture was heavily influenced by Sufi-ism, and much more tolerant of diversity of faith than the Deobandi-inspired Taliban.
The International Crisis Group report in 2007 said:[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]The desire for a quick, cheap war followed by a quick, cheap peace is what has brought Afghanistan to the present, increasingly dangerous situation. It has to be recognised that the armed conflict will last many years but the population needs to be reassured now that there is a clear political goal of an inclusive state. Actions to fight the insurgency must be based on and enforce the rule of law with priority given to the reform of the police and judiciary. Short-term measures such as reliance on ill-trained and poorly disciplined militias, harsh, ad hoc anti-terrorism legislation and discredited power brokers from past eras will only undermine the long-term goal of building sustainable institutions.[/FONT][FONT=Arial,sans-serif]
[/FONT]A professor of anthropology wrote recently in a long and detailed report on Afghanistan:
There is no evidence that the status quo ante which so many hoped for in the aftermath of the toppling of the Taliban regime has returned. Instead the downward spiral which began many years ago with the Babrak Karmal coup d’etat has, after a brief pause, continued on its way.
Like an ever increasing number of countries which have been propelled into ‘modernity’ as a result of armed external intervention, Afghanistan’s past currently looks much brighter than its future.
When states fail in this way, only those with the good fortune to belong to well armed majorities can expect to enjoy any degree of personal security. Minorities have a hard time, to but it at the very mildest. The Sikhs and Hindus of Afghanistan are one such minority.
He went on to say:
Despite the high hopes (and the severely limited vision) of the coalition forces who were responsible for bringing down the Taliban regime, what was represented as a window of opportunity proved to be a false dawn. In the years that followed Afghanistan has fallen back into a state of armed warlordism.
It was not ever thus. I had the good fortune to visit the country whilst it was still controlled by King Zahir Shah. Hence I witnessed the status quo ante which many Afghans desperately hoped might return. So far, however, no-one has discovered the remedy which would serve to put Humpty back together again....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
bo_drinker wrote: »F k me they are showing it again tonight...... lard ar5e hasn't been to the gym since last night....... Porker :rotfl:neverdespairgirl wrote: »Afghanistan's traditional Islamic culture was heavily influenced by Sufi-ism, and much more tolerant of diversity of faith than the Deobandi-inspired Taliban.
Bringing the quality of the discussion down again, ndg? :rolleyes:poppy100 -
...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0
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neverdespairgirl wrote: »My Dad and godfather lived in student digs in what they enjoy calling "West West Hampstead", AKA Kilburn.
We're the opposite, when we were in Tottenham we used to just call it 'Nam.0 -
The bungalow is still for sale at £179,950 even though Phil said the owner had decided to rent it out.
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/viewdetails-23867777.rsp?pa_n=1&tr_t=buy&mam_disp=true
Surely anyone with half a brain would get a 6 month contract on something the tax man classes as a "holiday let", at this time of year in Teignmouth?
It must be almost "house sitter" territory, given the number of second homes in that part of the country.0
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