charles_nz Forum Posts (1,386)

RE: Are you looking for a green card/permanent visa?

At least Hungary has a decent government.

RE: White-knighting

Meant to type, not a bad band.

RE: White-knighting

I know, I'm just teasing.

Not a band band, the Moody Blues. Although I prefer the more upbeat tones of "In Your Wildest Dreams".

RE: I'm on a starvation diet............

I wish I had the self-discipline to do likewise.

RE: Compound Words

Stickman

RE: Alexa Thread

Lol.

RE: Do differences really attract?

While much beloved by "chick lit" authors and rom-com screenwriters, the fact remains that in real life, it is very, very seldom that opposites attract.

RE: Can anyone explain why Bush senior and junior never where sent to Haag tribunal for war crimes.

In fairness, Nixon was the one who pulled the USA out of Vietnam.

In retrospect, Johnson should never have got the USA involved in the first place, in the war between North & South Vietnam, nor should he have bullied and cajoled other Western nations into also getting involved.

That said, the Vietnam War remains a glaring example of communist aggression against a non-communist neighbour, and one of the biggest tragedies of the second half of the twentieth century.

RE: How important your family to you?

Blood is thicker than water.

RE: Are you looking for a green card/permanent visa?

And, with the greatest of respect, I don't give a monkey's toss about your opinion either. Why on Earth would I take seriously a critique of my photos from someone who doesn't even have the courage to post a photo at all?

Shakes head in bewilderment.

RE: Liberal Teachers

There was some nurse in a resthome who smothered dozens of her patients with their pillow.

Better ban them pillows! Think of all the sweet old ladies we could save!

RE: Alexa Thread

I'm quite happy pressing my own TV control, and turning on my own light switches.

Maybe I'm just hopelessly old-fashioned?

RE: Alexa Thread

Um, ok then, never heard of it.

Why would anyone want "artificial intelligence" in the home?

RE: why do some people talk about things that happened years ago and blame parents for stuff that is bad

Cos they can.

RE: Are you looking for a green card/permanent visa?

I wouldn't mind moving to another country.

RE: Which motorcycle suits you best?

I'm with Clarkson on this one. Wouldn't get me on a motorcycle. I quite like being alive.

RE: White-knighting

Knights 101:


Black Knight - a type of licorice sweet

White Knight - a character from a Bonnie Tyler song

Red Knight - Happy shepherds

Rainbow Knight - Sir Elton John

RE: Alexa Thread

What is Alexa?

RE: Facebook and women driving.

There are plenty of men who are bad drivers.

In fact, almost all of the really bad drivers are men (as are almost all of the really good drivers).

RE: Biggest problem of the world...!

Gosh, where to start?

* Left-wingers

* Secularism

* Selfishness

* Hubris

RE: Rock, Paper, Scissors!

I have never understood this "game". Frankly, Mornington Crescent makes more sense!

RE: I believe in woman my oh my, my song for women

Slade were a very good band.

Unfortuantely one of them believed in the wrong woman, and ended up marrying serial killer Rose West........

RE: Fact

Here we go! OP seems to be another leftie who doesn't think human beings should take some responsibility for their own safety.

Shakes head in bewilderment.

RE: Gillette the worst a man could get

Good thread, Lee.

I am yet another person who would never buy a Gillette product ever again.

As an aside, the well-known theme tune "The Best A Man Can Get" is by John Parr, of "St Elmo's Fire" fame. The whole version of the song is actually really nice - he wrote it for his son, about how proud he was of him.

RE: Guns and monkeys don't mix

One of Mugabe's boys from the Rhodesian Bush War, who has been holed up in the bush and hasn't heard it ended in 1980?

RE: PREDICTIONS - Fact or Fiction?

I've heard of them. But you are right that sinister things like this seldom receive any mainstream media attention.

RE: unhappist nation in the world?

RE: Green Deal

That's a relief!!!!!!!

RE: Can anyone explain why Bush senior and junior never where sent to Haag tribunal for war crimes.

Actually, this is simply incorrect.

You will find that WWII began on 3rd September, 1939, when Britain and France declared war on Germany. Not, repeat NOT, the other way around.

They did so in order to honour an ill-considered guarantee they had given regarding Poland's independence some time earlier. After 50 million people had died, supposedly for Poland's independence, they then handed over Poland to the Soviet Union for the next 50 years.

Yup, that went well.

The fact that so many people (including you) seem to think Germany attacked Britain first, is indicative of the validity of my initial point. The victors create the history.

RE: White-knighting

How so? There's no photo (I still don't understand why anyone would join a dating site and then have no photo on their profile - to me it looks pretty "dodgy").