The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

Pyxis

zagubov wrote: »

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.

Yes.

Also, the problem is, if I understand correctly, that there are two issues here.

Firstly, the business of the alleged rape in Sweden. Maybe there are grounds for extraditing him to Sweden.

Secondly, the Wikileaks thing. With that, we get into the whole freedom of speech thing, freedom of the press, etc. etc. which is a much murkier pool, and fraught with problems.

The two issues appear to be separate and should not, possibly, be conflated. Neither should the fact that he appears to be a slimy, inconsiderate individual cloud the rather dangerous possibility of whistle-blowers being jailed.

I don't know all the details, but am just a bit afraid that kow-towing to the U.S. on this issue might be step too far, and might even be a bargaining ploy by the US for some post-Brexit trade, despite Trump's protestation of ignorance in the matter. Shudder!



Goodness! Pyxis has gone all political! :eek:

SingleSue

Joe has discovered the thermostat dial and what to do with it to make it produce more heat, I've discovered Joe has discovered the thermostat dial and how to use it (because it's like a blooming sauna in here!)....battle has commenced over said thermostat dial.

Pyxis

SingleSue wrote: »

Joe has discovered the thermostat dial and what to do with it to make it produce more heat, I've discovered Joe has discovered the thermostat dial and how to use it (because it's like a blooming sauna in here!)....battle has commenced over said thermostat dial.

Tell him to a) put a jumper on
and/or
b) do some hoovering to warm himself up

GDB2222

Well, according to the Daily Mail, he had to be reminded to do his washing up. On the other hand, he also smeared excrement on occasion. It's funny how they mix the trivial with the non-trivial and give them equal weight.

Edit: Assange, not Joe, just in case there's any doubt.

Pyxis

GDB2222 wrote: »

Well, according to the Daily Mail, he had to be reminded to do his washing up. On the other hand, he also smeared excrement on occasion. It's funny how they mix the trivial with the non-trivial and give them equal weight.

Edit: Assange, not Joe, just in case there's any doubt.

:rotfl: :rotfl:

Interesting that he only had to start paying for his own food from last December.

SingleSue

Pyxis wrote: »

Tell him to a) put a jumper on
and/or
b) do some hoovering to warm himself up

I've told him to stop being a wuss, it's April and not December.

SingleSue

GDB2222 wrote: »

Well, according to the Daily Mail, he had to be reminded to do his washing up. On the other hand, he also smeared excrement on occasion. It's funny how they mix the trivial with the non-trivial and give them equal weight.

Edit: Assange, not Joe, just in case there's any doubt.

Hehe, glad you clarified that!

vivatifosi

Pyxis wrote: »

:rotfl: :rotfl:

Interesting that he only had to start paying for his own food from last December.

Joe or Assange? Crikey this thread is getting confusing:rotfl:


In all seriousness, welcome home Joe.

SingleSue

Joe decided that because Felix (his main desktop PC) is too heavy and big to bring home in the shorter holidays and his MacBook not man enough to do his uni work on when at home, that he would build a smaller but still powerful short holiday PC.

Mum and dad were most impressed, we arrived at theirs at around 6 on Thursday with bits which had been delivered to mine to go with bits delivered to theirs and some Joe had brought back from uni which had been removed from Felix when he did upgrades and we left by 8 with a fully built and working powerful gaming PC.

Welcome to the family Max! (New, smaller PC's name)

GDB2222

SingleSue wrote: »

Joe decided that because Felix (his main desktop PC) is too heavy and big to bring home in the shorter holidays and his MacBook not man enough to do his uni work on when at home, that he would build a smaller but still powerful short holiday PC.

Mum and dad were most impressed, we arrived at theirs at around 6 on Thursday with bits which had been delivered to mine to go with bits delivered to theirs and some Joe had brought back from uni which had been removed from Felix when he did upgrades and we left by 8 with a fully built and working powerful gaming PC.

Welcome to the family Max! (New, smaller PC's name)

I remember someone called their PC Gordon, as in Gordon the big engine from Thomas the Tank Engine.

It's strange that Joe needs a gaming PC to do his uni work on.