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The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.
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There's a German saying: Visitors are like fish. After 3 days they stink.
The Ecuadorians were very, very long-suffering.No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
There's a German saying: Visitors are like fish. After 3 days they stink.
The Ecuadorians were very, very long-suffering.
Instead of self-imprisoning himself in the embassy, he could have served a lot of his sentence by now.I'm a Forum Ambassador on the housing, mortgages & student money saving boards. I volunteer to help get your forum questions answered and keep the forum running smoothly. Forum Ambassadors are not moderators and don't read every post. If you spot an illegal or inappropriate post then please report it to forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com (it's not part of my role to deal with this). Any views are mine and not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.com.0 -
Instead of self-imprisoning himself in the embassy, he could have served a lot of his sentence by now.
He looks absolutely terrible on the photos on the news. Any government that did that to him would be heavily criticised.
He was worried, he said, that the Swedish authorities would ship him off to the USA, and he'd end up in one of their most awful jails. But Sweden does not have an extradition agreement with the USA. I suppose someone in his position needs to be pretty paranoid, but he seems to have overdone it.No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
Should have bitten her instead, plenty of good eating on a fat bint....
Naughty Michaels!
Funny, though! :rotfl:
Mind you, not very good eating if it's mostly all fat! :eek:(I just lurve spiders!)
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PasturesNew wrote: »How much did this geezer in the embassy cost us Brits?
Worra waste of money .....
While he's been in the embassy, it's been at the expense of the Ecuadorian taxpayers, not us.Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.
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While he's been in the embassy, it's been at the expense of the Ecuadorian taxpayers, not us.
The Home Secretary has said in the House of Commons today that he has cost the British taxpayer several millions, can't remember exactly but about 13 million up until 2015. That is is the cost of policing him. He is a disgrace and there are women in Sweden who deserve to see him in court and submit himself to their justice system to decide if he is a rapist.0 -
Loanranger wrote: »The Home Secretary has said in the House of Commons today that he has cost the British taxpayer several millions, can't remember exactly but about 13 million up until 2015. That is is the cost of policing him. He is a disgrace and there are women in Sweden who deserve to see him in court and submit himself to their justice system to decide if he is a rapist.
I stand corrected, Loanranger.
I agree he's a disgrace. It will be interesting to see what happens to him now he's out of that embassy.Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
Yeah but, hiding in other countries embassies has been honourable and necessary in the past.
The East Germans who invaded foreign West German embassies to claim asylum, the Americans who hid in the Canadian Embassy in Tehran, and all the western diplomats who hid in the Albanian embassy during the Cultural Revolution, never mind the liberalising Hungarian premier Nagy who hid in the Yugoslav embassy in 1956 until they shamefully handed him over for execution by the new regime.
This isn't a positive step, unless May tells the US to keep their hands off, which she did before, in the Gary McKinnon case.There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0 -
PN I'm glad you're getting your referral
Sue Our DS is going away for a week helping a friend with work on a new home/building project and we agree he'll miss the cat much more than he'll miss the humans! And what the cat will do without him I don't know. DS is his favourite human even though it's me who feeds the cat.0 -
Yeah but, hiding in other countries embassies has been honourable and necessary in the past.
The East Germans who invaded foreign West German embassies to claim asylum, the Americans who hid in the Canadian Embassy in Tehran, and all the western diplomats who hid in the Albanian embassy during the Cultural Revolution, never mind the liberalising Hungarian premier Nagy who hid in the Yugoslav embassy in 1956 until they shamefully handed him over for execution by the new regime.
This isn't a positive step, unless May tells the US to keep their hands off, which she did before, in the Gary McKinnon case.
But did any of those people you've listed repeatedly break the conditions of their asylum claims in the way that the Ecuadorians are saying that Assange has?Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0
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