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Discussion in 'Queens Park Rangers' started by Stroller, Jun 25, 2015.

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Should the UK remain a part of the EU or leave?

Poll closed Jun 24, 2016.
  1. Stay in

    56 vote(s)
    47.9%
  2. Get out

    61 vote(s)
    52.1%
  1. Star of David Bardsley

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    I hear she got hit by a speedboat
     
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    How can you be sure? At times I can be almost as stupid as Bracknell or whatever the **** he’s called.
     
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    Spanko the whole buffalo
     
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    That's only after you've had a head-on collision with a lorry while a pedestrian
     
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    Is that the cost of a physical bed, ie the equipment?
     
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    Not very nice. My wit and repartee are legendary.
     
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    I would really like to give you some insight about what it’s like out there….the delays…the frustration….the burn out from all concerned, but better I don’t go into details.

    The system is broken….and sorry, I don’t have any useful answers
     
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    Dunno. Just Googled is lazily. Might have been one of those new-fangled existential ones.
     
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    Been saying it for ages, they’ve just gotten bolder with it it, because they can get away with it, people excuse it, people ignore it, people are easily distracted by media trying to split the public and turn on each other trying to make big issues out of pretty much nothing. Wait for the investigation? <laugh> Nobody big has fallen in recent times over an investigation, we’ve not seen the full results of an investigation and we never will, Mone will be the sacrificial lamb, although she’ll have made her money so hardly facing hardship.
     
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    Not Politics but just watched the most amazing NFL game in history.
    An amazing comeback from the Vikings…wow
     
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    The song features vocals from Kirsty MacColl, an English singer-songwriter who was killed 11 years ago - on December 18, 2000 - in Cozumel, Mexico. The story of Kirsty's death is heartbreaking. She died saving her son from an oncoming speedboat during a scuba diving trip.

    https://www.cbc.ca/strombo/news/the-sad-tale-behind-fairytale-of-new-york-singers-death.html

    Why did Fairytale of New York get Cancelled?

    BBC Radio Solent's Alex Dyke tweeted that he wasn't comfortable with the song's lyrics, which include Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan calling MacColl an “old sl*t on junk”, and MacColl calling him in return a “cheap, lousy f*****”.Dec 4, 2019

    Track remains an annual controversy-magnet due to its lyrics.

    It was Christmas Eve babe
    In the drunk tank
    An old man said to me, won't see another one
    And then he sang a song
    The Rare Old Mountain Dew
    I turned my face away
    And dreamed about you
    Got on a lucky one
    Came in eighteen to one
    I've got a feeling
    This year's for me and you
    So happy Christmas
    I love you baby
    I can see a better time
    When all our dreams come true
    They've got cars big as bars
    They've got rivers of gold
    But the wind goes right through you
    It's no place for the old
    When you first took my hand
    On a cold Christmas Eve
    You promised me
    Broadway was waiting for me
    You were handsome
    You were pretty
    Queen of New York City
    When the band finished playing
    They howled out for more
    Sinatra was swinging
    All the drunks they were singing
    We kissed on a corner
    Then danced through the night
    The boys of the NYPD choir
    Were singing Galway Bay
    And the bells were ringing out
    For Christmas day
    You're a bum
    You're a punk
    You're an old slut on junk
    Lying there almost dead on a drip in that bed
    You scumbag, you maggot
    You cheap lousy ***got
    Happy Christmas your arse
    I pray God it's our last
    The boys of the NYPD choir
    Still singing Galway Bay
    And the bells are ringing out
    For Christmas day
    I could have been someone
    Well so could anyone
    You took my dreams from me
    When I first found you
    I kept them with me babe
    I put them with my own
    Can't make it all alone
    I've built my dreams around you
    The boys of the NYPD choir
    Still singing Galway Bay
    And the bells are ringing out
    For Christmas day


    LyricFind
    Songwriters: Jem Finer / Shane Patrick Lysaght Macgowan
    Fairytale of New York lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group

     

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    One of my favourite gigs of all time. 19mins in for the above lyrics! If you are going to question lyrics in music then I guess there will not be much left to listen too. I don't think either Shane or Kirsty seem to mind much in this video!
     
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    https://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.c...ed-have-some-cash-left-to-pay-our-nurses.html

    It’s difficult to disagree with Hitchens’ position on the current strikes and his criticism of the government’s stance on this, particularly after they’ve spaffed billions on the Covid panic.

    The circumstances of Zara Aleeva’s murder are appalling, but how many times have we (and will we) hear similar?

    This country is pretty ****ed in just about every aspect one cares to examine. It’s been ****ed by well-intentioned liberalism, a desire to be popular and compassionate and a lack of any real opposition to the steady inexorable ill-judged policies of politicians of all liveries. All too easy to blame the B-word, but any idea can be made successful with the right execution by sensible, intelligent and moral people.
     
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    And people wonder why I can’t support the Labour Party
     
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    Well just finished a meeting concerning the upcoming strike on Wednesday and proud of my Union in the fact that massive plans are in place that staff will definitely be responding to the most needy during this time, and will absolutely be responding to life saving emergencies as soon as they come in.
    Please don’t believe the upcoming lies, that I’m sure will be forthcoming from the right wing press that we are going to let people die while we stand idle on the picket lines……this certainly will not happen.
     
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    So are the people in the control centres not striking, so they can triage the calls effectively? Another thing which will not be noted, I assume it’s the whole service, not just the paramedics in vans, who are in dispute?
     
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    As far as I’m aware it’s staff on the road mate….EMTs, AAPs and Paramedics. I think the call takers will be working normally and calls will be triaged
     
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