Early Risers.

[petethemole]

46 minutes ago, monkeysarefun said:

 

 

Great. So he turns up here and straight away gets handed 1.5 million. Wheres my 1.5 million? And he gets  free accommodation and meals, we should be looking after our own instead.

 

And what about all the other countries between there and here he could have stopped in?  Whats wrong with them?

 

People like him are just laughing at our border policy, there'll be boatloads of them soon. All talking in the trains with their silly accents.

Sadly, said individual is descended from a community of people who came to England by boat, fleeing persecution and probable death in their home country...and were made welcome and allowed to settle here. 

[petethemole]

Duplicate post.

Edited November 23, 2023 by petethemole
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[jjb1970]

I remember many many years ago when I was at sea I did some time on a container ship trading between the Persian Gulf and East Asia. It was a terrific ship, very well designed and built and the route was great (Gulf - Singapore - Hong Kong - Busan - Yokohama - Nagoya - Kobe - Busan - Kaohsiung - Hong Kong - Singapore - Gulf). Anyway we picked up a pair of stowaways in Bandar Abbas, Iran. We did a complete circuit and no port would take them so they were still on-board when we got back to Bandar Abbas. They were marched down the gangway and shot, I think I had a slightly different attitude to migrants and desperate people after that.

 

That was a sister ship of a boat which operated a Europe - Gulf service, that was the one which tested a containerized Seawolf SAM system. The test which was hush hush tope secret and for which we had to sign the official secrets act, nobody ever knew that the container with a VLS and the other one with a radar radome on top cunningly disguised by painting BAE - Lockheed on the sides were a missile system.

[monkeysarefun]

28 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

I think the UK Government got the idea of “offshore processing” from Australia. Perhaps they have capacity in their PNG camps. 

 

 

 

And I'm pretty sure our Liberal (ie not liberal) party trade marked "Stop the boats!"

 

 

 

 

 

Edited November 23, 2023 by monkeysarefun

[jjb1970]

10 minutes ago, petethemole said:

Sadly, said individual is descended from a community of people who came to England by boat, fleeing persecution and probable death in their home country...and were made welcome and allowed to settle here. 

 

Priti Patel's family were part of the East African Asian community expelled from Uganda by Idi Amin, and she was a truly turpitudinous individual with truly ghastly views on many things (though in fairness Priti was pretty).

[monkeysarefun]

6 minutes ago, jjb1970 said:

I remember many many years ago when I was at sea I did some time on a container ship trading between the Persian Gulf and East Asia. It was a terrific ship, very well designed and built and the route was great (Gulf - Singapore - Hong Kong - Busan - Yokohama - Nagoya - Kobe - Busan - Kaohsiung - Hong Kong - Singapore - Gulf). Anyway we picked up a pair of stowaways in Bandar Abbas, Iran. We did a complete circuit and no port would take them so they were still on-board when we got back to Bandar Abbas. They were marched down the gangway and shot, I think I had a slightly different attitude to migrants and desperate people after that.

 

 

Echoes of the MS St Louis

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_St._Louis

[Gwiwer]

2 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

Is that a p😯litical slogan or an advertisement? 

[Erichill16]

1 hour ago, jjb1970 said:

Nice country you have there, be a real shame if it was over run by objectionable and turpitudinous rejects from blighty.....for a small sum (say $50 billion a year) Rishi can make sure it won't happen.

And this lot 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-67506228

[Gwiwer]

In other news why are the white ones smaller?  And why are they also more expensive?  
 

We’ll have no Digestiscrimination here. 
 

[polybear]

3 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

I've noted....

 

Is that @Erichill16 I see at the front?

[polybear]

1 hour ago, monkeysarefun said:

People like him are just laughing at our border policy, there'll be boatloads of them soon. All talking in the trains with their silly accents.

 

Welcome to life in the UK.....

 

1 hour ago, PhilJ W said:

We were hoping that you'd keep him. After all you want something to discourage all the immigrants.

 

At last, an answer....

All we need to do is sit Nigel Farage on Dover Beach in a throne and get him to do his best King Canute impression; all rubber boats will take one look and bvgger off back where they came from.....

[Coombe Barton]

1 hour ago, petethemole said:

Sadly, said individual is descended from a community of people who came to England by boat,

As Britain was uninhabited during the last Ice Age we're all descended from immigrants. Some of our ancestors walked, those arriving before about 8500 years ao, but after that they came by boat.

 

[Tony_S]

1 hour ago, Gwiwer said:

Is that a p😯litical slogan or an advertisement? 

I was told that bear was quite expensive in Helsinki restaurants .

[PhilJ W]

53 minutes ago, polybear said:

At last, an answer....

All we need to do is sit Nigel Farage on Dover Beach in a throne and get him to do his best King Canute impression; all rubber boats will take one look and bvgger off back where they came from.....

As long as the throne is set in cement at the low tide mark and he is chained to it.

[PhilJ W]

2 hours ago, monkeysarefun said:

 

 

Thats is an entertaining point that up until now I'd never considered 

 

. Monday to Friday its all Hi-Vis and hard hats,  "bend your knees when you pick that up!" and BeepBeepBeepBeepBeepBeepBeepBeepBeepBeepBeepBeep  whenever anything at all reverses, but OH&S just gets switched off completely come winter Saturday arvos!

 

 

Looks like a brawl with a ball.

[Hroth]

4 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

I've noticed.....

 

Your spelling is a bit dodgy, shouldn't it read "FREE BEER"?

 

[PhilJ W]

Afternoon all from Estuary-Land. I was hoping to get some more done in the garden but now its getting too dark. It's getting cold as well, better get ready for going out later.

[BoD]

2 hours ago, polybear said:

All we need to do is sit Nigel Farage on Dover Beach in a throne and get him to do his best King Canute

You mean Cnut …. Patron Saint of dyslexics.

[Hroth]

Its been an expensive month....

 

Vehicle Tax

House Insurance

Quarterly Energy bill

 

At least they didn't all come up NEXT month, or it would have definitely been a case of

 

Bah!  Humbug!!!

 

[TheQ]

Afternoon Awl, 

Ben taken to vets, one deltic and a bit later, he'd had a very thorough examination, and his only comment was when the thermometer was wielded. ( Temperature OK) He was very good making no comments when every joint was bent and tested. We know he has pain from his left fore ankle, the vet reckons he has something wrong with his neck, he wont lift  his head although she bent it back further than I've ever seen it.

Bloods were also taken which were ok, except for a slightly low white cell count. She wants a second test on that on Monday.

Meanwhile he's had an painkiller injection, and we have a week's worth strong painkiller pills to give him. The funs going to be getting him to take the pills, he's very good at not eating pills...

The injection she said will last 4 hours, but he's not due his first pill for another 2 hours.

 

Stuff bought from the orange shed, will be unloaded and partly used tomorrow.

Blazer and trousers taken to dry cleaners. Got warning as they are so old it's at my own risk.. only over 20 years old...

 

Very windy out there,  was clear blue Welkin until the big light in the sky was switched off.

 

[jamie92208]

4 hours ago, Tony_S said:

I think the UK Government got the idea of “offshore processing” from Australia. Perhaps they have capacity in their PNG camps. 

Didn't the exporting of our undesirables to Oz start when the revolting masses across the pond said we couldn't send the there anymore.

 

Jamie

[Tony_S]

1 minute ago, jamie92208 said:

Didn't the exporting of our undesirables to Oz start when the revolting masses across the pond said we couldn't send the there anymore.

 

Jamie

Once the USA declared independence somewhere else was needed for those sentenced to transportation. Perhaps there was a labour shortage in the new colonies?

[pH]

2 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

As long as the throne is set in cement at the low tide mark and he is chained to it.

But that would severely time-limit the efficacy of the solution.

[DaveF]

The service at church went well today and there were nice choccy biscuits with our coffee.  Afterwards I had a walk along the promenade, a council workman was topping up the water in the plastic barriers which are still in a neat line.  While I was there the wind strengthened a lot, fortunately it stayed mild.  There was a lot of cloud about and some bits of rainbows.

 

Back at home I had a look at what the roofers have done, it seems fine and they have taken the mortar out of the gutter where it had ended up when it slipped out from under the tile.  I had a simple lunch of sausage and beans on toast (real Heinz ones) after which I went in the front garden.  By now it was very windy indeed, approaching gale force but I still managed to tidy up the perennial geraniums.  I picked up all the bits without too much stuff blowing down the road.

 

After that I cut down some ornamental grass in the back garden along with a few other bits.  There are still some jobs to do but the bin doesn't go for the last time until 6th December so there is no rush if it really is cold over the next few days.

 

Once that exertion was over I sat down and had short doze and then tackled the jigsaw again.

 

In a few minutes tea will be a Greggs chicken bake which I bought from their new shop at the beach, it will go in the oven shortly to be heated up.  After that it will once again be a normal evening of TV, music and book.  I intend to watch the programme at 7pm on BBC2 about Seaton Sluice as I quite often go there when I go along the coast.

 

Not all the sand has come back yet.

 

A pale rainbow in a light shower.  The "thing" in the foreground is an old figurehead in the garden of a house by the beach.

 

David

[Coombe Barton]

... interpreting the enquiry evidence - Speaks of not following the scientific advice again and causing more infections, hospitalisations, ICU patients and ultimately deaths, especially between September and October 2020 – a six week hiatus which could have changed a great deal. ...

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2023/11/23/covid-a-look-at-this-weeks-figures-and-spotlight-changes-in-the-enquiry/