There are three standouts on this board that need putting right from time to time. Thumwood, Jabbo and you. Thumwood is too far down the road and cannot be saved. There's no point in reasoning, just ridicule. Jabbo, who doesn't have much original thought, just repeats his latest flame. That seems to be you at the moment. Although it might be beyond you, I think there is hope for. You're almost always wrong but just occasionally, you make some comments that are not the usual self righteous, utopian and unrealistic tropes that the left wing wokes are known for. It may be misguided loady, but I believe you can reach level headed reality. Obviously, if you can be saved Jabbo will follow suit. back at you.
Before IOAG goes all Osvaldorama, I want to record that I would prefer to be called Ian. Always Game For It never uses my title " Mr" whenever he refers to me by my surname. Seeing as i self identify as male , I think I am owed that courtesy if he is not going to call me either Ian , Thummers or Thummy. To reminiscent of Private Pike being spoken to by Captain Manwaring.
Don't forget the famous scene: German Officer (to Pike): What is your name? Captain Mainwaring: Don't tell him, Pike
Everyone in this country has the right to legal defence. The "legal aid" aspect is pretty much a grey area. For divorces? Petty crimes? yes you might come a cropper. Serious crimes the state is always going to provide a defence in order to be able to keep the semblance of "fair and just" in trials. In these cases here which are pretty high profile I would suggest a defence was provided! And no I cannot say that for sure. Legal Aid in high profile cases is a different mater to someone moaning about slander or my husband/wife is a bore. .lol
Unassociated, but my wife's family is over from Portugal and USA atm. They wanted to meet an aging relative in Hounslow who would not stop banging on about how they shouldn't come because her area was incredibly racist. (yes I know age probably means this is more dementia or paranoia or something) My wife and her sister were astonished to be told they shouldn't go to Hounslow because it was a hotbed of racism, when they live in Lincoln which is 90% or more white British and have next to never* experienced racism in this city (my wife has been here for 21 years) yet in a place in London they are being told it is very racist despite the "white British" being in the minority in that area! (44%.) I asked her who is being racist there? The Indians? The Pakistanis? Who? The Asian demographic shows 37% which is nearly as much as the White Brit but I was of course joking. Not to ignore her age which could well mean this was more a semblance of an earlier period but someone feeling racism in a white minority area compared to someone in a white dominant area, and of course "racist hotbed of old white, left behind, uneducated people in Lincolnshire, (next to) never having experienced racism is very strange. I have no idea what Hounslow is like these days but I last visited with my wife this aunt" about 15 years ago and the place was a pretty typical rundown ****hole back then. Didn't see any trouble there though, although we were only there for an afternoon. *I put next to never because when she said she hasn't experienced racism in Lincoln I suspect she has on occasion and also in comparison to Portugal where it is still very racist!
