charles_nz Forum Posts (1,386)

RE: Compound Words

Giveaway

RE: A little mellow tonight

Huh?

RE: Compound Words

Leafblower

RE: Compound Words

Q: What did Speedy Gonzales say when he got a job as a carpet fitter?

A: Underlay, underlay!

RE: Sweden speaks out

Sweden has become a basket case.

RE: BREXIT STICKING POINT?

Britain will never leave the EU in any meaningful sense. The politicians won't allow it.

RE: BREXIT STICKING POINT?

Britain will never leave the EU in any meaningful sense. The politicians won't allow it.

RE: Damage Control

Couldn't have put it better myself.

RE: Can You Believe This!!

I agree with the statement you have quoted (and it sounds like a Lee-ism?).

What exactly is your problem with this statement, which seems to be to be common sense advice?

RE: Would you tell her/him the truth?

It depends on a number of factors, including how well you know the friend, and how open to criticism he or she is.

RE: They interrupted televising the Michigan Maryland game to announce Kavanaugh’s confirmation

I'm glad they interrupted a sports game to give you some political news.

I'm sick to death of my normal programming being interrupted because of some sporting fixture, so it is nice to see the hoot on the other foot for a change.

RE: Where are the Japanese?

At least they're alive (or were when the photo was taken). Unlike the folks of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

RE: Compound Words

Underlay

RE: Compound Words

Peanut

RE: Compound Words

"Thorne" is not a word, but I am guessing you meant "hawthorn", which is indeed a compound word.

RE: Leaving the EU on the 29 March, deal or no deal

That's what the people voted for. It remains to be seen whether the politicians will give them what they voted for. I am not optimistic.

RE: THE CASE FOR COLLUSION

Agreed. Not perfect, but definitely better than his predecessors.

RE: A little mellow tonight

I am serious. Yellow.

RE: When would you hit a woman?

"Maybe" ?????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

RE: Compound Words

Boardshorts

RE: Leaving the EU on the 29 March, deal or no deal

Getting out was never part of the deal. The whole idea of the EU is to get everyone so entangled that they can not be untangled.

I suppose it could be worse. Look what happened to the Southern States in America when they tried to secede (as they had every right to do so) from the U.S.A.

RE: Leaving the EU on the 29 March, deal or no deal

A sad attitude.

RE: THE CASE FOR COLLUSION

With respect, you are the one who is full of fallacies.

The system was designed in a certain way. Sometimes the candidate with the larger number of votes wins, sometimes they don't.

What matters, and what is relevant, is winning the Electoral College, which is what Trump did, and what you can be sure Hillary Clinton was trying to do too.

RE: A little mellow tonight

No, and nor can Mr. or Ms. Tracy Chapman......

RE: Compound Words

Stonewall

RE: THE CASE FOR COLLUSION

Frankly, countries shouldn't be invading other countries, whether to impose democracy or not.

RE: Leaving the EU on the 29 March, deal or no deal

And it always was!

RE: THE CASE FOR COLLUSION

I am not wrong. And your post is irrelevant.

Trump won the election, on the same basis and rules that every other winning candidate has won. The Establishment (whom you seem to admire so much) are unwilling to accept the result, despite the fact that they created the rules under which he won.

As an aside, I am sure you would be singing a different tune had the Clinton Crime Syndicate won, with less votes than Trump.

RE: THE CASE FOR COLLUSION

Sorry but it's not.

If the architects of the U.S.A.'s political system had wished to create a system in which the higher polling candidate necessarily won, they would have done so. But they didn't.

RE: THE CASE FOR COLLUSION

Democracy has, in the vast majority of countries that practice it, never been about guaranteeing that the candidate with the highest vote will necessarily win.

Here in New Zealand, the 1978 and 1981 general elections were won by a party that polled less votes than the opposition party, but won more seats. The last election we had here too, in 2017, also delivered a result that cut out the largest party, and saw a government formed by a party that was 10 percentage points behind the largest party in the popular vote.

In the UK, similar scenarios have played out in the past.

And in countries with proportional representation systems, governments are often formed by parties that only 30% of people actually voted for.

An election between two individual candidates, with the higher of the two guaranteed by the system to win, is very much the exception in democratic systems.