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garysfc said:
Travelling on business is ****e even if your staying in 5* & eating best foods. Would much prefer to be home with family & simple stuff.
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Well I would say travelling everywhere and being shown everything and then getting into rest up in one of your palaces after is not the worst of lives…
 
garysfc said:
Travelling on business is ****e even if your staying in 5* & eating best foods. Would much prefer to be home with family & simple stuff.
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Edit: Been working in Berlin this week & was due to fly back Thursday eve, arrive home 1am Friday. Flight got cancelled at last minute & struggled to get hotel. Paid for another flight next day which also got cancelled late also late in day, so again spent hours getting hotel & another flight today. Been sat in Brandenburg for last 3hrs & another 2 pending. Keeping everything crossed I get home late tonight. Missed our anniversary dinner yesterday. Of course, Lizzie wouldn’t suffer like this but travelling is not all it’s cracked up to be. Would have missed Brentford game but EPL / FA sorta did me a favour.
 
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Schad said:
You're part of an cluster of islands off the coast of Europe, and as the majority of that landmass is not actually English, I'm going to assume that you must be Irish. Dia duit! You pleased to see Kerry back on top in the GAA?
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I’m European. I have that - and a few other things - in common with the natives of Kerry.

My national identity, in so far as I have one, is made up of several overlapping cultural influences. Throughout the last 1000 years, some of those influences have been at more or less constant war with each other, as I frequently remind my French partner; who likes to remind me in return, that she is not French, but Breton. Which practically makes her Cornish.

I’m English when the World Cup’s on though.
 
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thereisonlyoneno7 said:
May I say from seeing both @Schad and @Archers Road posts that I really enjoy, I do think that maybe Archers was being a bit mischievous calling Schad American.

It reminded me of when I was in an important meeting recently and I had a colleague from the US was asking where another colleague, Miguel, came from and he said Portugal. The US guy was a bit confused and I said to annoy Miguel I said "Oh you know, it's like being Spanish"
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Iberian <ok>
 
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Archers Road said:
Nope. I know Schad is Canadian. America is a landmass, not a country, and Canada is part of that landmass (the USA is a country, albeit a country unlike any other).
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For what it's worth: absolutely no one on this side of the Atlantic refers to the landmass stretching from Canada to Chile as 'America', nor as themselves as 'Americans'. It just isn't a thing.

I'm also a bit amused by the notion that being in the UK provides some sort of innate understanding of eastern European affairs that is simply beyond the grasp of anyone from outside of Europe.
 
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In light of the rapid advances of the Ukrainians in kicking the Russians off a good chunk of their soil and highlighting the weakness of the Russian army, will the usual suspects be writing along these lines?

"Continued fighting only needlessly prolongs the suffering. In light of that Russia should sue for peace and give up 20% of their territory.

I'm not on any side, but I am on the side of peace - and if the cause of peace requires Russia to make some minor territorial concessions like giving Ukraine a landbridge to Georgia and Kazakhstan, then they should resist their North Korean masters and do it.

I will leave you all with this: peace is priceless, a flag is just a cloth, and a single life is an entire world. Who are you to ask Russia to sacrifice worlds when raising a simple cloth over St. Petersburg, a city you likely never heard of before this war, could mean peace?"

Dmitry Grozoubinski
 
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Onionman said:
In light of the rapid advances of the Ukrainians in kicking the Russians off a good chunk of their soil and highlighting the weakness of the Russian army, will the usual suspects be writing along these lines?

"Continued fighting only needlessly prolongs the suffering. In light of that Russia should sue for peace and give up 20% of their territory.

I'm not on any side, but I am on the side of peace - and if the cause of peace requires Russia to make some minor territorial concessions like giving Ukraine a landbridge to Georgia and Kazakhstan, then they should resist their North Korean masters and do it.

I will leave you all with this: peace is priceless, a flag is just a cloth, and a single life is an entire world. Who are you to ask Russia to sacrifice worlds when raising a simple cloth over St. Petersburg, a city you likely never heard of before this war, could mean peace?"

Dmitry Grozoubinski
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“A flag is just a piece of cloth ….” - such a perfect quote!
 
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Good……..she has far more pressing things to address than work on photo opportunities for her instagrams account.
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Today was meant to be the day when Russia's 'referendums' on annexing large swathes of Ukraine were to happen. They, uh, aren't happening for some reason or another.
 
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