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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 19, 2020 23:49:48 GMT
They should call it a Festical.
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Post by questa on Mar 20, 2020 1:45:13 GMT
I heard it was a complete balls-up
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Post by patricklondon on Mar 23, 2020 15:54:18 GMT
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 25, 2020 13:06:44 GMT
Can’t give the link to thiis on the BBC news website.
“ Coronavirus: Avoid using microwave to get faster internet “.
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Post by onlyMark on Mar 25, 2020 16:54:04 GMT
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 25, 2020 17:23:52 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 30, 2020 16:44:26 GMT
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Post by mossie on Mar 30, 2020 18:38:49 GMT
There can be occasions when that is the correct place.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 31, 2020 1:24:43 GMT
Little known fact: besides being an RAF pilot and a roadworks engineer, Mossie was also a skilled and subtle marriage counselor!
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Post by questa on Mar 31, 2020 5:25:55 GMT
Now Now, kiddies...play nice!
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Post by patricklondon on Mar 31, 2020 8:46:26 GMT
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Post by mossie on Mar 31, 2020 9:43:48 GMT
Little known fact: besides being an RAF pilot and a roadworks engineer, Mossie was also a skilled and subtle marriage counselor! The only marriage counselling I got was "Keep them well fucked and poorly shod"
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Post by questa on Apr 4, 2020 5:45:53 GMT
I'd be wanting a raise in my shoe allowance then!
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 6, 2020 9:03:32 GMT
It's not so much the headline I don't understand as the way it's been and being told and the details therein. As they say, "I have questions." You may know a Welsh singer called Duffy. She was not in the news for anything for quite a few years. No problem I thought, she's just not making music anymore. Well it seems about ten years ago she suffered a traumatic incident where she was kidnapped and abused and has recently come to tell something of it. These are her words, there are a lot more but this is the main thrust of it. My one main question is, has the perpetrator being caught and gone to court, and if so, I would have thought we would have heard about it. Some of the details I find perplexing -
"It was my birthday, I was drugged at a restaurant, I was drugged then for four weeks and travelled to a foreign country. I can’t remember getting on the plane and came round in the back of a travelling vehicle. I was put into a hotel room and the perpetrator returned and raped me. I remember the pain and trying to stay conscious in the room after it happened. I was stuck with him for another day, he didn’t look at me, I was to walk behind him, I was somewhat conscious and withdrawn. I could have been disposed of by him.
I contemplated running away to the neighbouring city or town, as he slept, but had no cash and I was afraid he would call the police on me, for running away, and maybe they would track me down as a missing person. I do not know how I had the strength to endure those days, I did feel the presence of something that helped me stay alive. I flew back with him, I stayed calm and as normal as someone could in a situation like that, and when I got home, I sat, dazed, like a zombie. I knew my life was in immediate danger, he made veiled confessions of wanting to kill me. With what little strength I had, my instinct was to then run, to run and find somewhere to live that he could not find.
The perpetrator drugged me in my own home in the four weeks, I do not know if he raped me there during that time, I only remember coming round in the car in the foreign country and the escape that would happen by me fleeing in the days following that. I do not know why I was not drugged overseas; it leads me to think I was given a class A drug and he could not travel with it.
After it happened, someone I knew came to my house and saw me on my balcony staring into space, wrapped in a blanket. I cannot remember getting home. The person said I was yellow in colour and I was like a dead person. They were obviously frightened but did not want to interfere, they had never seen anything like it.
Thereafter, it didn’t feel safe to go to the police. I felt if anything went wrong, I would be dead, and he would have killed me. I could not risk being mishandled or it being all over the news during my danger. I really had to follow what instincts I had. I have told two female police officers, during different threatening incidents in the past decade, it is on record.
Once someone threatened to ‘out' my story and I had to tell a female police officer what information the person held about me, and why the blackmail was so frightening. The second incident was when three men tried to enter my house as intruders, I told the second female officer about the rape then also. The identity of the rapist should be only handled by the police, and that is between me and them."
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 6, 2020 9:33:23 GMT
I read that too. Very strange.
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Post by whatagain on Apr 6, 2020 9:42:45 GMT
Can t understand why running away cashless and being. Caught as a missing person would have been worse than bei v held and raped. Quite a weird story. As for the guy coming and seeing her as a death corose and saying and doing nothing i don t want them for neighbour nor friend.
Bizarre vous avez dit bizarre ?
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Post by questa on Apr 6, 2020 10:02:47 GMT
No phone in the hotel? No cleaning staff to slip a note to? No guards to scream to at the airports? skin going yellow? I think the lady has been the victim of a very bad combination of Class A and something like Datura or magic mushrooms. Whatever, I doubt she will be "normal" again.
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Post by mossie on Apr 6, 2020 14:26:46 GMT
Weird. Questa has it right.
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Post by fumobici on Apr 6, 2020 14:51:22 GMT
That story has my BS detector screaming in full song. She's probably seriously mentally ill.
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 6, 2020 15:25:54 GMT
I agree with all the above.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 6, 2020 17:49:23 GMT
When I read the story, I just deleted it from my mind because it just does not compute. I can imagine a person being totally drugged for a certain amount of time but not to the extent of not showing the problem to various outside parties for so long.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 8, 2020 17:38:25 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 8, 2020 21:23:34 GMT
Undoubtedly. Probably requires further reading into that very worthy publication.
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Post by patricklondon on Apr 9, 2020 4:35:46 GMT
Does this mean that if they had stayed as dutiful members of the royal family the problem would have been solved? I realise that was a rhetorical question, but no, it just means that the Express, or whichever Phil Space is in charge of it nowadays, is making things up again.
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Post by patricklondon on Apr 9, 2020 4:46:54 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 9, 2020 4:57:22 GMT
That's reasonable.
This really points up how tourists miss seeing the real England. I had no idea sunbathing in the street was such a big thing there.
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Post by patricklondon on Apr 9, 2020 12:55:24 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 9, 2020 15:53:44 GMT
The original rapper!
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Post by patricklondon on Apr 11, 2020 6:58:54 GMT
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Post by mossie on Apr 11, 2020 7:16:47 GMT
Hilarious, although I bet he didn't think so. He will be able to dine out on that for a long time (after he has washed his trousers and thrown away his underpants)
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