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24th July 2023, 05:36 PM
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A real crummy one as kids was to get a stick look for a piece of dogs dirt , rub the end of the stick through it . Look for a convenient target preferably smaller than yourself and say to him here’s a stick for you , watch the expression on his face and get ready to run , he’s either going to murder you or burst into tears . JS
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24th July 2023, 08:10 PM
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The only Oppenheimer i knew was the Rich Bugger that owned the South African Diamond Mines@! LOL
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25th July 2023, 02:45 AM
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25th July 2023, 03:41 AM
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reading these posts i am glad we just had a football if you did half of those tricks now you would be locked up???jp
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25th July 2023, 04:42 AM
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#11 Thanks Marian puts a whole new meaning to making Mud pies . JS.
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26th July 2023, 01:57 PM
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220,000 died in the Atomic Bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Estimates of an invasion of the Japanese mainland calculate would have cost 10.8 million lives both Allied and Japanese. Under an order by the Japanese High Command that if invaded they would execute all Allied POWs. Some 100,000 included in the above figure. Do the math and for every person killed by the atomic bombs, about 48 lives were saved per person killed. Quite apart from ending WW2 in mid 1945 not 1946. Based on these figures in about a week or so with no atomic bomb attack, the same number would have died in an invasion. One other plus is that the world knows the horror of nuclear war. Without Hiroshima and Nagasaki we would not be here. The use of nuclear weapons by Putin because of this has probably stayed Putin's hand in Ukraine.
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27th July 2023, 10:57 AM
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When one thinks back to the war years , how different the world was. Soldiers used to go home on leave complete with rifle and bayonet . The uk was a different uk then and could expect an invasion any day of the week. Can one think of today’s soldiers being allowed home armed to the teeth. They would likely be mugged by some of the clientele roaming the streets, of course most of that clientele didn’t exist in those days. The little darlings would have been in detention camps if any such people existed then. JS
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27th July 2023, 11:15 AM
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Yes the UK may have a few problems with certain indivuals, do not believe all you hear. Most people in the UK live a quiet and peaceful life.
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27th July 2023, 01:09 PM
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Yes the UK may have a few problems with certain indivuals, do not believe all you hear. Most people in the UK live a quiet and peaceful life.
agree a small minority cause majority of problems, although I believe there are lots of low level crimes committed because there is no deterrent.
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27th July 2023, 01:57 PM
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Don’t have to believe what I hear I’ve met some of them . JS .
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