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RE: Macron facing a crisis that he created by baiting Trump

I can't read his tweets because I have #Trump (and #Brexit) muted on my Twitter feed so I literally cannot see them. It's a sanity thing.

Has he deleted the tweet? Has he tweeted he made a mistake, it wasn't the huge riots in France shouting for him, but a small group of nutters in England instead?

It hardly matters. Those who believe it will believe it to their deaths, those who know it is fake news (fancy that, fake news, eh?) will roll their eyes just one time more.

But the riots, interestingly, were originally price-of-fuel based but continuing in part because Macron is slashing corporate tax and giving tax relief to the very rich, leaving the bulk of the tax debt on middle income (and items like fuel), which is ironically a very Trumpian thing to do. The French, far from accepting it the way the US did it, are exceedingly unimpressed.

Not that it matters. No one is listening, everyone is marching to their inner demons and the voices in their head.

RE: Macron facing a crisis that he created by baiting Trump

Macron is in trouble all right, but not because of Trump.

Those revolters chanting We Want Trump - check whether that tweet still stands, or if Trump has since deleted it. Do you guys not read each other's blogs? I already gave LJ the heads-up.

Here's the video.




These knuckle-draggers are at a far-right rally in England, chanting mockingly at a cartoon Trump capering on a bus and laughing at him. Be grateful they are laughing, you don't want that kind of support.

The big clue to the video is that in France they speak French, not English. In fact they're known for not speaking English.

English police, wearing distinctively English police caps, can be seen in foreground.

You are perpetuating either your president's naivete, or his deliberate lie, you pick whichever you prefer.

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Mimi, you are an utterly practical woman, what a load of worry off Art's mind

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I suspect the best he could rustle up is a clip-together pool fence and I doubt that would stop a determined cow. I suppose an electric fence is too much a drain on power? We had one in my smallholding days and my stepmother, looking bored and disdainful, accidentally leaned on it when dragged along for a visit by my father.

That memory is still cherished and she's been dead at least 10 years

(Er, not dead because of the fence)

RE: My Triumph

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Eks! Haven't seen you in AGES hope all going well and you are having a good summer?

The one thing I have learned from this blog is that none of the mad mums dashing round buying too many pressies are on CS. Or they are too busy to comment

What would you really really like from Santa for Christmas? Him and me have made up our dfiferences, we're like this (oh, right, you can't see me. I'm holding up two fingers pressed close together) so I will put in the word for you, money no object

Always good to see you

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Kids afraid of Santa -

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Vier, I'm being thick. If he'd done what? felt up the twins?

You know what, it's a bit like the priest issue. Everything seems hunky dory, then it turns out a couple of wolves slipped into the fold and grabbed the chance to be disgusting and evil and now no kids can sit on Santa's lap.

Which, considering many kids widdle with terror, is probably a relief to most Santas. I love looking at pics of kids screaming their heads off when forced into posing with Santa, ahhhhhhhhhh, feel the magic.

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Harb, they know where the money comes from. It's from Santa.

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Abagail, nobody is allowed to sit on Santa's knee any more, even those who wouldn't mind being felt up but I wish you'd try it, and I wish you'd have someone standing by with a camera

Question for you - are you giving gifts to children this year? Are you giving a bigger or more expensive gift than you would have given 10 years ago (relatively speaking, you understand - EVERYTHING is more expensive than it was 10 years ago!) and will the tag say it is from you, or from Santa?

Look into the light, please. And don't worry about the rubber hose, we won't be using it if you just answer the question.

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Molly, my old, are you giving any gifts to children this Christmas? And if you are, will the tag say from Auntie Molly (or insert name here) or from Santa?

Put it another way, are you muscling in on the big guy's territory, in other words, or staking your own claim?

RE: Mr. Trump.

The point of ignoring the blog question and dragging in some hasbeen everyone else has forgotten?

RE: Mr. Trump.

Who is Hillary Clinton?

And nah, your blog hasn't changed. You're being evasive. How many yes verdicts?

RE: Copyright vs C& P

But you're missing the point here. Some bloggers want to provoke discussion, and some bloggers want to have the most number of blogs.

Then the blogs with the most number of comments - there are a few which have comments just for the sake of boosting the count - check out the top 5 most commented, you can pretty quickly spot the difference between genuine content / discussion and

Me, I want the most discussion and the most number of blogs and give me another 10 years and I'll manage it or die trying

RE: Mr. Trump.

Harb, I feel faint at the thought of catching up the 30 or so comments I've missed. What did I miss? Does anyone think he's a nice person? A good person? An honest person? Would you, put it this way, buy a used car from him?

So far as I had originally got, there was one comment that he was charming, and a few who said no politicians can be expected to be nice / good / honest and still be politicians, (fair comment) but at that point, no-one had shouted a resounding YES.

So? Final tally to date?

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M4 - okay, for you it is all about Santa, since you would hardly have been celebrating the birth of someone who doesn't exist. It's just a magical time of year to spontaneously spend lots of money and pretend it all came from a magical overgrown elf who doesn't actually exist.

My blog was, as always, too long. I really should have said only 'do kids get a lot more now than they did in the past, and is the whole thing more about Santa than it used to be' but you said your kids are grown so you wouldn't know about now anyway.

I agree about the magic and fun when I was growing up, and my kid was growing up. BUT - just as the original reason for doing the whole thing in the first place has been lost in the wash, as even String conceded, I think the magic is NOW I repeat NOW being lost in the wash too and it has become more commercial and pressure is on to spend more than ever before. I wondered if anyone else thought so.

No-one does, obviously.

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Itchy, I've also said I was a spoiled brat.

Even worse, as a spoiled brat I have more than once refused to eat my spinach, even though there are children in this world starving.



Will you, this Christmas, be giving your grandchildren prezzies from you, or will you say they are from Santa?

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Emmy oooooh that's tactless in a village - in a town you always know there's another just round the corner or in the next garden centre

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Z my best friend told her parents it was a secret between her and Santa, her mum finally had to ask me if I had any idea

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Yeah all right it was fun believing

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Harb, you watched it too? It's STILL doing the rounds

Same procedure EVERY year

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Hans - he has a long, long sleigh ride ahead of him to reach you guys, don't you be getting him so drunk on sherry and biscuits that he forgets he still has the rest of us to reach

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Chat, if you feel under pressure to give me a gift, I'll send you my Paypal details

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Itchy, just me then.

I had a very underpriviliged childhood! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! I only got presents from family and friends and one measly stocking from Santa filled with tat to keep me busy when I woke up at 4 and knew under pain of a lingering and painful death I couldn't wake my parents before 7

Kids nowadays, half the time you can't see the tree for the pile of prezzies

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Hmmmm Z did you get any help writing it, perhaps?

Or was there a subtle guessing game all the way up to Christmas?

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Bear, you saying video reminded me of this famous Dinner For One. It's apparently practically a cult in Germany now to watch it at Christmas and it was always on TV for us lot in SA some time over Christmas. My mother never missed it, and laughed until she nearly cried. I never thought it very funny but if it's on, I do watch it for the memories. It's 10 minutes long, in black and white, and pure slapstick farce. Maybe Mum had been drinking Christmas sherry.

Same as EVERY year

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Z, to the nearest tenanted balcony?

Did you post it yourself, or did you learn pretty quickly that it was a better idea to give it to a parent to post?

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Z, do you still remember the address?

I think my first inkling that this Christmas thing might be a bit fake was telling my mother I could hardly wait for my bike to arrive. She looked at me slightly wildly. Bike? BIKE? I thought you wanted a dollhouse?

No, I said, I want a bike. A RED one.

Santa brought a dollhouse.

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Emmy that is INSPIRED I love it. You've escaped the responsibility of not getting exactly what was wanted (bless the little darlings who change their minds a week before Christmas ) but it's no longer a grab bag and you are clearly involved in the process LOVE IT

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Hi Bear yup all the so-called magic nowadays ends in disappointment and disillusionment

Having said that, I'm a fan of the whole thing, for all my bah humbug attitude. I loved the whole ceremony of hanging up my stocking, going to bed early, straining my ears listening for jingling harness and hooves on the roof. When my daughter was young I did the whole snowy footprints on the floor to and from the fireplace (yeah I know, middle of summer in the southern hemisphere, but that's WHY the snow fell off his boots, you see ) to have her shake me awake at the crack of dawn, squeaking with delighted fear, to say he'd been - but he was always just a magical delivery guy, an enabler, not the source or the reason. My decorations are up now. I don't hate Christmas but I won't be bulldozed into spending frenzies, or to this trend that there has to be enough presents to fill a sleigh - or even that any one single present is in celebration of the existence of Santa.

RE: Get a Burger King Whopper for 1 cent....for real.

HEY I hope that deal spreads to Spain, they just built a new Burger King in Motril and guess what? it's about 550 feet from McDonalds ... I'm not a huge burger fan but in for a penny cent, in for a pound.