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Offline Snoopy

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Parliament Square Statues
« on: August 29, 2007, 08:51:52 AM »
I see that a debate has started "elsewhere" about the unveiling of a statue of Nelson Mandella in Parliament Square today. The argument put forward is that he is not "British" and should therefore not be there. The suggestion is that his statue is there because he is "Black"

I am not allowed to post a reply there but if any of you with dual membership wish to join in you might care to point out that Jan Christian Smuts and Abraham Lincoln were not British either. Both have statues in Parliament Square, which has never been reserved for British leaders but is the recognised preserve of Great Leaders of Nations.

To be fair Dippy, in his response, seems to have grasped the point that one doesn't have to be British.

In truth the reason that Mandella's Statue is going into Parliament Square is because the City Of Westminster refused planning consent for Ken Livingstone's plan to put it in Trafalgar Square.
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Re: Parliament Square Statues
« Reply #1 on: August 29, 2007, 08:55:44 AM »
I didn't know that.

They're probably read your post here anyway.

Also ~ it would have to be for great and good leaders otherwise we could argue the case for a having a statue of Hitler  eeek:
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Re: Parliament Square Statues
« Reply #2 on: August 29, 2007, 08:58:46 AM »
Quote from: Uncle Mort on August 29, 2007, 08:55:44 AM
I didn't know that.

They're probably read your post here anyway.

Oh! ..... They wouldn't ~ would they?  eeek:
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Re: Parliament Square Statues
« Reply #3 on: August 29, 2007, 02:19:30 PM »
Quote from: Uncle Mort on August 29, 2007, 08:55:44 AM
I didn't know that.

They're probably read your post here anyway.

Also ~ it would have to be for great and good leaders otherwise we could argue the case for a having a statue of Hitler  eeek:

Get outta here!  I hear we have sunk so low that we are over the horizon...  It would be sooo uncool to read our stuff,
or at least admit to it.

Hey! why don't we put Uncle Bob Magabwe up too? - They can chat about the old days.
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Re: Parliament Square Statues
« Reply #4 on: August 29, 2007, 02:24:07 PM »
We'll have one of Gerry Adams next

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Statues of Terrorists
« Reply #5 on: August 29, 2007, 02:33:32 PM »
I know theres a thread elsewhere.. but bollocks to it..

lets have one of Guy Fawkes too !!!, stood by the London Eye looking across at the H of P .. whistle:
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Re: Parliament Square Statues
« Reply #6 on: August 29, 2007, 02:35:42 PM »
I merged it...  whistle:
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Re: Parliament Square Statues
« Reply #7 on: August 29, 2007, 02:35:55 PM »
fuck me, that was quick !
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« Reply #8 on: August 29, 2007, 02:36:34 PM »
Quote from: Berek on August 29, 2007, 02:33:32 PM
I know theres a thread elsewhere.. but bollocks to it..

lets have one of Guy Fawkes too !!!, stood by the London Eye looking across at the H of P .. whistle:

They usually have one on the South Bank facing Parliament every year on 5th November  ..... but some b@st@rd always sets fire to it.
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« Reply #9 on: August 29, 2007, 02:39:00 PM »
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Re: Parliament Square Statues
« Reply #10 on: August 29, 2007, 02:40:57 PM »
Quote from: Barman on August 29, 2007, 02:39:00 PM
Quote from: Berek on August 29, 2007, 02:35:55 PM
fuck me, that was quick !
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So quick I had to rescue my contribution as the board told me I wasn't allowed to post eeek:
Thoughts of deja vous for a moment there
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Re: Parliament Square Statues
« Reply #11 on: August 29, 2007, 02:42:57 PM »
Quote from: Snoopy on August 29, 2007, 02:40:57 PM
Quote from: Barman on August 29, 2007, 02:39:00 PM
Quote from: Berek on August 29, 2007, 02:35:55 PM
fuck me, that was quick !
whistle:

So quick I had to rescue my contribution as the board told me I wasn't allowed to post eeek:
Thoughts of deja vous for a moment there
Who says the server is shite eh?  whistle:
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Re: Parliament Square Statues
« Reply #12 on: August 29, 2007, 02:43:36 PM »
Quote from: Barman on August 29, 2007, 02:42:57 PM
Quote from: Snoopy on August 29, 2007, 02:40:57 PM
Quote from: Barman on August 29, 2007, 02:39:00 PM
Quote from: Berek on August 29, 2007, 02:35:55 PM
fuck me, that was quick !
whistle:

So quick I had to rescue my contribution as the board told me I wasn't allowed to post eeek:
Thoughts of deja vous for a moment there
Who says the server is shite eh?  whistle:

You do - at times  ::)
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Re: Parliament Square Statues
« Reply #13 on: August 30, 2007, 12:35:00 AM »
Quote from: Snoopy on August 29, 2007, 08:51:52 AM


I am not allowed to post a reply there but if any of you with dual membership wish to join in

noooo: You have to be joking...He closed down all 4 of my accounts pdq, at the same time as he shut you down. He will not sanction the new one I tried to set up... I have earned the reputation of a trouble maker... which actually annoys me, when I see some of the tripe that the new and some of the old clientele are posting there now, not that I look in very often these days, I have taken my own advice and found a life.   whistle:
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