This is the best thread on this site. It would be a shame if it was ruined by an overzealous moderator.
Someone's had too much to drink. It's been a good few years since you last saw your bellend fatty! I edited this to put a smiley face in, so you know I'm not offended. Our feminised society dictates that I feel I have to do this I'm afraid. So pick your chin up, and the other one. ****ing emojis are so ****ing gay!
Can we talk about conspiracy theories linked to Buddhism and Asatru, since they aren't religions, more ideas for living? I want to at some point discuss Asatru/Odinism, and how the gods as their followers believe, were remnants of an ancient civilisation - Atlantis.
Can't discuss that one, You have a no politics and no religion rule on here, surely one of us would end up banned for racism against aliens . PS Or would that be some other ism?
Barely any Germanic neo-pagans believe in the Atlantis theory. Most neo-pagans view their gods as allegories or take the euhemerist perspective that the gods were historical figures and kings over Germanic tribes who later 'became' gods through ancestor-worship. Most don't believe their gods were actual real divine beings. The Atlantis theory isn't linked to Germanic paganism at all. It was a Platonic concept later revived in the 19th and 20th century as pseudo-science by biological racialists to suggest the 'Aryan race' originated in a lost island in the North Atlantic.
During World War II the Government was again forced to borrow heavily in order to finance war with the Axis powers. By the end of the conflict Britain's debt exceeded 200 percent of GDP, as it had done after the end of the Napoleonic Wars.[4] As during World War I, the US again provided the major source of funds, this time via low-interest loans and also through the Lend Lease Act. Even at the end of the war Britain needed American financial assistance, and in 1945 Britain took a loan for $586 million (about £145 million at 1945 exchange rates), and in addition a further $3.7 billion line of credit (about £930m at 1945 exchange rates). The debt was to be paid off in 50 annual repayments commencing in 1950. Some of these loans were only paid off in the early 21st century. On 31 December 2006, Britain made a final payment of about $83m (£45.5m) and thereby discharged the last of its war loans from the US. By the end of WW2 Britain had amassed an immense debt of £21 billion. Much of this was held in foreign hands, with around £3.4 billion being owed overseas (mainly to creditors in the United States), a sum which represented around one third of annual GDP.[9]
Which had nothing to do with Marshall Aid which was given to a number of countries. It was offered to the USSR as well. They refused it and stopped the countries they had taken over and subjugated receiving any either.
I know, but the loan element still had to be paid back (I think it completed in the 1960s), I am just pointing out where the confusion has come in between Martial Aid and other loans that were completed in 2006
That was just the Marshall Aid. The Anglo-American loan was 3.75 billion USD, which is around 57 billion USD today.
I met him ... ... last week I travelled to and from somewhere south of London. I bought a 1st Class return over two days, using online booking. Outward journey fine, return not so fine. I had come in and out of the online booking procedure a number of times and found out, at Waterloo Underground, that my intended departure date had retained the correct time but jumped back from the 4th to the 3rd, a day early. My seat was lost, my ticket invalid, due to it being a fixed time and date at a fixed pre-booked price. Booked like this scores of times, never dropped a clanger before, but aye, it was my fault. The pre-booked 1st Class return cost me £190 in total. I went to Waterloo ticket office and spoke to a chap who was sat behind his big glass panel. I explained the situation and he grimaced, shook his head and told me what I knew: no refund or new train booking; the return was lost. I asked him for the cost of a new single, to Durham, he grimaced (again) and told me it would cost me alot of money. I pressed him and he said a later, standard single fare, (3hrs later) would be cheaper at £125; I grimaced. I asked about an immediate return and was told £142, including underground. I said okay, needs must. Then I saw his name-tag and he was called Jesus ; my first real Jesus. I jokingly pointed out that with a name, such as his, I hoped he could do something to reduce the cost to my pocket. He half laughed, half grimaced and pointed out that water to wine was a piece of piss, but train tickets a nighmare. I think I laughed, kind of. Historical or religious, Jesus, was a waste of space. Thanks for sharing my pain, as it felt like a bloody conspiracy!
