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  1. QuarterMoonII

    QuarterMoonII Economist

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    Cliff Richard was born in Lucknow, India... Freddie Mercury was born in Zanzibar...
    Anybody else not born here? <doh>
     
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  2. Ciaran

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    The 'Gammon' gave these pricks the privileged lives they live today.
     
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  3. Ciaran

    Ciaran 2016 POTY

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    me
     
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  4. pompeymeowth

    pompeymeowth Prepare for trouble x
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  5. petersaxton

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    Lammy thinks that Henry VIII came before Henry VII

    https://www.independent.co.uk/voice...man-bottom-of-the-class-mr-lammy-1648278.html

    "1) What was the married name of the scientists Marie and Pierre who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903 for their research into radiation? 2) Which fortress was built in the 1370s to defend one of the gates of Paris, and was later used as a state prison by Cardinal Richelieu? 3) Who succeeded to the English throne aged nine on the death of his father Henry VIII in 1547? And 4) Which country's Rose Revolution of 2003 led to the resignation of President Edward Shevardnadze?

    John Humphrys put these and others to higher education minister David Lammy, star of Tuesday's Today programme, on Celebrity Mastermind last December. How I resisted the ague of stupefaction the answers induced long enough to press the record button is a mystery. Raw courage, I guess. But thank God I did, because this general knowledge round is a godsend. Whether the performance of Mr Lammy, who cites "curiosity" among his likes, is sensible cause for jollity is for you to judge, but in a perverse way it cheers me up whenever the melancholy strikes.

    All right, enough suspense. Here are Mr Lammy's answers. 1) Antoinette. The Nobel physics Laureates of 1903 were, according to our advanced learning supremo, Pierre and Marie Antoinette. If that seems a Curie-ous reply, stand by for 2). Versailles. Quite a swanky jail in which to await the guillotine, even by French revolutionary standards, but there it is.

    Bastille our beating hearts, though, for here comes 3). Henry VII. Henry VIII was succeeded on the throne, by way of a tear in the fabric of space-time, not by his son Edward VI but his late sire. Mr Lammy shook his head despairingly at that one, but showed no remorse for 4). The country of which Mr Shevardnadze ceased to be president in 2003 was, he told us, having taken advantage of the extra thinking time gifted by the end-of-round beeps, Yugoslavia.

    Now making every allowance for nerves caused by the black chair, we'll write off Antoinette as a slip of the tongue, and try to forget Versailles and the time-travelling Henry VII. Any residual stores of charity are drained, however, by 4). How could a minister of state, for higher education or paperclips, be unaware that Yugoslavia dissolved in the early 1990s? By what savage irony did he imagine that Europe's most vicious warfare since 1945 could be styled the "Rose Revolution"? How did that major global figure Shevardnadze, whose name could only come from Georgia (the former Soviet state, Mr L; not the one on Ray Charles's mind), pass him by?

    If it seems incredible, it is all the more so because Mr Lammy has a Masters in law from Harvard, alma mater of President Obama with whom he claims friendship. Can any of us have such a stellar qualification and tend, to put it generously, towards the dim?"

    Lammy is a lefty
    many lefties are stupid
    and it shows
     
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  6. petersaxton

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    Terry Butcher born in Singapore
     
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  7. DUNCAN DONUTS

    DUNCAN DONUTS SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIOR

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    Lefties struggle with humour and have no ability to detect irony or sarcasm .

    This is proven here on a daily basis .

    They have 2 jokes calling white British people gammons based on skin pigmentation.

    That has been the funnies joke for the last 5 years their second is calling Trump Orange this gets a laugh every single time .

    Some of the comedy mavericks have a 3rd joke, Boris is fat Trump is fat Saxton is fat .

    A few will go further and just slander Trump Tubs DePfeffel or Saxton as a sexual pervert.

    Reverse the same jokes by calling Dianne Abbott a fat nigger whore and apparently that's a hate crime .
     
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  8. QuarterMoonII

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    Socialism For Dummies
    The Len McCluskey Guide

    Start off with the Unite union members’ money six years ago and plan to build a hotel, conference centre and new union offices in Birmingham for £35 million.
    Give the construction job to a firm owned by one of your mates in Liverpool. Before a shovel is stuck in the ground or a brick is laid, the price has already gone up to £57 million. Hey, calm down, calm down.
    Make a few design changes, pay the Unite workers on the job higher wages (well it is their money, so why not?), make sure the union guy with the clipboard adheres to tea break hours and eventually you get your shining new Birmingham building for just £98 million.
    No doubt the Unite union’s 1.2 million members are quite happy with their £80 a head investment – but they probably cannot afford the rooms at the four-star hotel and Len is just about to retire on his gold-plated pension that they are paying.

    If only Len and his mates could run the country at a 280 per cent over-spend with somebody else’s money...
     
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    monacoger POTY 2021

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    Billions of people weren't <ok>
     
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  10. A.L.D.O 4.1

    A.L.D.O 4.1 1 of the top defendants in Europe

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    Honest tae fùck mate. Do you have to inflict these tedious, inaccurate historical hysterics on us. You're like our very own version of Wikipedia that's been tampered with by Mindy after a particularly heavy Babysham session.

    Brevity, look it up!

    :emoticon-0114-dull:
     
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  11. QuarterMoonII

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    I could not figure out the point that you were trying to make by telling us that you were born in Hong Kong. I might as well have pointed out that I have been to Hong Kong twice – once when it was still British and once after the flag was lowered. It did not change much between 1996 and 1998.

    Phil the Greek was born in Corfu. <ok>
     
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    she has a point
     
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  13. QuarterMoonII

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    Are you another Leftie with the attention span of a goldfish and only capable of monosyllabic grunts? You and the WUM Toby should get along great.
    We know the Left hate facts because they always disagree with them.
    The woke virtue signallers are doing a poor job of rewriting history.
    Do they still sell Babycham? <bubbly>
     
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  14. A.L.D.O 4.1

    A.L.D.O 4.1 1 of the top defendants in Europe

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    Facts are good. Your pretentious pish, not so much. You make the shìt up as you go along.

    I mean ffs you posted, Germany invading Poland didn't cause WWII German expansionism did!

    Wtf! Fùcking nonsense!

    <laugh>
     
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  15. petersaxton

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    A.L.D.O 4.1 1 of the top defendants in Europe

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    Here we go again!

    <laugh>
     
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  17. A.L.D.O 4.1

    A.L.D.O 4.1 1 of the top defendants in Europe

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    <laugh>
     
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  18. QuarterMoonII

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    Clearly you are really poorly read in History. <doh>
     
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  19. Toby

    Toby GC's Life Coach

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    <laugh> You still don't get it. Nice try though.
     
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    monacoger POTY 2021

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    It was because I have said it on here on numerous occasions, it was more for the old school people on here. Yeah the main difference after we have it back was the extra time getting through customs. Last time I was there it was to watch the Rugby 7s, what a weekend that is.
     
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