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    [News] No VE Day thread?

    Union Jack Bunting on Hedge outside Jakarta Towers. Will be taken down in the morning.
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    [News] No VE Day thread?

    Shame on NSC... My Grandad fought in France in 1940 in the Cheshire Regiment, was evacuated at Dunkirk and ended up in Italy via North Africa in 1945. I never met him, clearly suffering with PTSD he took to drink and walked out on my Grandmum and two children a few years later, where he died...
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    [Film] What's the most thought provoking/controversial film you've watched?

    Reservoir Dogs - amoral brutality throughout - a quite chilling portrait of how some people 'live' their lives. Could never listen to Steelers Wheel in the same way after watching the torture scene..
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    [Misc] What Book are you Currently Reading?

    Cooke is based upon his TV Series America. I am finding it it difficult to plough through the Rory Stewart book, probably because it confirms all my views about politics.
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    [Music] What's the best song you have heard today? Share it here.

    Dedicated to Mrs Jakarta. Showed it to Her and we then had a gentle dance around our Study ....
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    [Misc] What Book are you Currently Reading?

    Three at the minute, still ploughing through Alistair Cooke's America,. Bought (good face for radio) Rory Stewart's Parliament dairy Politics on the Edge (a bit turgid and it is clear who the hero of the tale is) and found the marvellous Robert Harris fantasy Archangel in the spare bedroom so...
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    [Music] What's the best song you have heard today? Share it here.

    From the Temptations to a Band my late Brother introduced me to in the late 1980's. Again their best song? Love the Bass/guitar interaction...
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    [Politics] Donald Trump, US President

    Carney knows a hundred per cent more about economics than the orange faced clown over the border. Hope we start buying Canadian goods and services and tell the USA to f*** off...
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    [Politics] Donald Trump, US President

    Zelensky is a cheeky bugger - well done to him as well... :thumbsup: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr5d13e4r2rt
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    [Politics] Donald Trump, US President

    Carneys Liberals look like winning, well done Canada!
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    [Music] What's the best song you have heard today? Share it here.

    The Suits, the Shoes, the Moves. :thumbsup: Motown at its best...
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    [Music] What's the best song you have heard today? Share it here.

    Wonderful collaboration...
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    [Politics] Donald Trump, US President

    Quite, grown-up politics as practised by grown-ups.
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    [Politics] Donald Trump, US President

    Further to my last post on NATO membership, see the only time Article 5 was invoked. Nicholas Burns is a very sensible American so little chance of his voice being heard...
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    [Music] What's the best song you have heard today? Share it here.

    47 years later and still brilliant...
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    [Politics] Donald Trump, US President

    NATO really should kick the USA out. Give them 3 months to exit Europe and f*** off back to the States. Also issue a reminder that we also have nuclear weapons and that any land grab attempt for Canada will mean NATO Article 5 is enacted and Washington will soon be Ashington.
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    [Albion] Premier League & FA Cup 26-27/4/25

    Dreadful Spurs performance, even West Ham are better... :lolol:
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    [Albion] Premier League & FA Cup 26-27/4/25

    A Fergie time equaliser, better than I thought was possible from this shower of shit...
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    [Albion] Premier League & FA Cup 26-27/4/25

    Utd are not just on the beach but have already nicked the sun loungers... :lolol:
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    [Music] What's the best song you have heard today? Share it here.

    Top Shoegazing. Left me slightly deaf after seeing them at the Brixton Academy back in the day...

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