Dreadful drowning in Lampedusa....

[amateur51]

Because your point of view is always the same Guardian editorial repeated ad nauseam. Everything is the fault of the USA, News International, the Daily Mail, Thatcher, the Metropolitan police, etc., etc., etc.,.....

I have advanced my argument against that view many, many, times.

No you#ve just repeated the same old, same old no argument at all. It's always somebody's else's fault and if that person isn't white, so much the better.

I don't think reading and argument are high on the priorities of Game of Thrones fans, sadly.

[Mr Pee]

I don't think reading and argument are high on the priorities of Game of Thrones fans, sadly.

Coming from somebody who keeps telling others not to make sweeping generalisations, that's a corker.

[MrGongGong]

Coming from somebody who keeps telling others not to make sweeping generalisations, that's a corker.

I think you better get a move on Peester, you might miss the train and it would be a shame for you to miss the RFH events this weekend........

[Beef Oven!]

Terrible tragedy
some of the responses to it (this is from the Independent of all places ????) are rather predictable and show a total lack of humanity and empathy

such as

"They are all muslim invaders that cause nothing but problems, violence, crime, welfare-fraud in whichever western country is unfortunate enough to have them." ....

and

"They are ILLEGAL ECONOMIC IMIGRANTS. They knew the risks and they took them. This is the fault of the corupt €U "

Post #2!!! Is this a forum record in terms of the known phenomenon of "Beefster's-law"?*


*Beefster's law states "........ that, given enough time, in any R3 forum discussion—regardless of topic or scope—someone inevitably blames or cites entrepreneurial capitalism and/or western culture or a western person or group, as either being the cause of, or intransigent to, the individual or collective misery or misfortune, happening in the world".

[MrGongGong]

Post #2!!! Is this a forum record in terms of the known phenomenon of "Beefster's-law"?*


*Beefster's law states "........ that, given enough time, in any R3 forum discussion—regardless of topic or scope—someone inevitably blames or cites entrepreneurial capitalism and/or western culture or a western person or group, as either being the cause of, or intransigent to, the individual or collective misery or misfortune, happening in the world".

I was just commenting on what folks seemed to be saying in the INDEPENDENT of all places :Yikes:
Some folks have no empathy at all

Interesting that no one is citing Tebbit and his cycling ideas as something that these folks were doing !

NO one deserves to drown at sea Regardless of who they are .......

[Beef Oven!]

NO one deserves to drown at sea.......

Absolutely. Unimaginable. I pray for the poor souls.

[Mr Pee]

I don't think reading and argument are high on the priorities of Game of Thrones fans, sadly.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/may/26/julia-gillard-game-of-thrones

[amateur51]

http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...ame-of-thrones

Well after going through what she's been through, no wonder she needed something mindless :biggrin:

I never thought I'd see the day when Mr Pee would call up a feminist Australian politician to his aid & comfort.

I wonder what Ms Gillard would say if she knew about it.

[ahinton]

Well after going through what she's been through, no wonder she needed something mindless :biggrin:

I never thought I'd see the day when Mr Pee would call up a feminist Australian politician to his aid & comfort.

I wonder what Ms Gillard would say if she knew about it.

I have no idea but somehow suspect tht it would not be "no worries, mate!"...

[Mr Pee]

Well after going through what she's been through, no wonder she needed something mindless :biggrin:

I never thought I'd see the day when Mr Pee would call up a feminist Australian politician to his aid & comfort.

I wonder what Ms Gillard would say if she knew about it.

As usual, you miss the point entirely, which is that as the PM of Australia, regardless of her political views, Ms. Gillard is clearly more than capable of reading and argument.

And your dismissal of GOT as "mindless" simply shows that you have never watched it, and have no idea of its scope and complexity.

[MrGongGong]

And your dismissal of GOT as "mindless" simply shows that you have never watched it, and have no idea of its scope and complexity.

aaah I must have a look
sounds like it could be up my street (like Fernyhough's music then :-) )

[ahinton]

And now yet another - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24502279...

[amateur51]

And now yet another - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24502279...

Terrible events, and yet people keep coming. And unless the EU gets stuck into talking with African governments, it will keep occurring and probably get worse.

http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/oct/13/mediterranean-cemetery-malta-prime-minister

[Richard Barrett]

as the PM of Australia, regardless of her political views, Ms. Gillard is clearly more than capable of reading and argument

Julia Gillard is not the prime minister of Australia.

Anyone who reckons Game of Thrones to have "scope and complexity" really needs to explore the cultural world a little more.

[ahinton]

Julia Gillard is not the prime minister of Australia.

Anyone who reckons Game of Thrones to have "scope and complexity" really needs to explore the cultural world a little more.

Sure, but "not paying attention" (at least when it suits not to do so) seems to be par for the course for our Peeblesshire reident, n'est-ce pas?