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Re: Advice on Solo Traveling Through Asia

Asia is one of the least dangerous places in the world for solo travellers. I've never had any trouble in any of the places I've visited there, but then I do take a few precautions. I tend to bring older clothes with me, not wanting to look as if I was worth robbing. The only scam I've experienced i...

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Braybuddy

Re: Harry's New Book 'Spare': Scuffle between Harry and Willie

bennett123 wrote:
When someone says Black I tend to think of Michelle Obama.

I agree. I've see white people who look darker.

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Braybuddy

Re: Harry's New Book 'Spare': Scuffle between Harry and Willie

bennett123 wrote:
But did he kill them because they were black?.

Of course not. In exactly the same way that Meghan Markle wasn't hated because she was black.

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Braybuddy

Re: Harry's New Book 'Spare': Scuffle between Harry and Willie

bennett123 wrote:
Those people were the enemy.

I was making a point. The Sussexes are quick to accuse others of racism without evidence. "Meghan was treated badly because she was black", isn't really any different from saying "Harry killed 25 Taliban because they were black".

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Braybuddy

Re: Harry's New Book 'Spare': Scuffle between Harry and Willie

Hmmm . . . I can see the headlines: "White man who has no regrets about killing 25 darker-skinned people calls others racist".

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Braybuddy

Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - Discussion Thread

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Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - Discussion Thread

Interesting article on this from WaPo: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/12/30/putin-isolated-russia-ukraine-war/ “There is huge frustration among the people around him,” said one Russian billionaire who maintains contacts with top-ranking officials. “ He clearly doesn’t know what to do. ” ...

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Braybuddy

Re: Nearly half of Brits say Prince Harry should lose his title, survey suggests

Unsurprising given the battle that the tabloids have waged against him and his wife. Imagine a society founded on a class structure with the (white) British royal family at the top as determined by birth and by blood. A biracial woman enters the top of the pyramid by marriage, negating both the bir...

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Braybuddy

Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - Discussion Thread

Meanwhile, back in the alternative universe that is Russia, RT shows how Europeans are spending Christmas: https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/ztphsh/russia_today_is_airing_an_insane_clip_of_a/?utm_term=2166214481&utm_medium=post_embed&utm_source=embed&utm_name=&u...

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Braybuddy

Re: Economic Crisis Looming in Russia

Can't happen soon enough, as far as I'm concerned. I think even Putin knows the game is up.

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Braybuddy

Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - Discussion Thread

https://www.businessinsider.com/russian ... ?r=US&IR=T

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Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - Discussion Thread

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Braybuddy

Re: Decriminalization of Homosexuality in Barbados

You can't just blame the Brits. Looking at that map it seems to be more of a geographic thing than anything else. If you were to blame colonialism, why the difference between Uganda, which is notorious for its treatment of gays, so different to South Africa? Also, the countries with the harshest pun...

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Braybuddy

Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - Discussion Thread

An interesting development, which I haven't seen covered before: https://www.wired.com/story/gps-jamming-interference-russia-ukraine/ SOMEONE seems to be blocking GPS signals in some Russian cities, mostly in the west. I wonder who that could be??? I thought the article claims it is Russia themselv...

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Braybuddy

Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - Discussion Thread

https://www.wired.com/story/gps-jamming ... a-ukraine/

SOMEONE seems to be blocking GPS signals in some Russian cities, mostly in the west. I wonder who that could be???

Braybuddy

Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - Discussion Thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbhHWYv ... nysDavydov

Braybuddy

Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - Discussion Thread

Fears that Ukraine would humiliate Russia just before his annual press conference was Putin's deciding factor in cancelling the event. Putin ignores the war, while opening turkey farms and motorways: https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/12/14/ukraine-war-and-popularity-worries-why-putin-is-skipping-h...

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Braybuddy

Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - Discussion Thread

https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/sta ... 5428180993
It is particularly poignant given the focus on the theatre, which was to be the site of the most horrific criminal act just a few months later.

Braybuddy

Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - Discussion Thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIE1g8k ... iamSpaniel

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Re: Greatest movie ever

Sight and Sound Magazine just released their "Greatest film of all time" survey for 2022. They only conduct this survey every ten years. 1 - Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles Out of curiosity, and having nothing better to do on a wet Saturday in December, I watched this ...

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Braybuddy

Re: RIP Christine McVie (Fleetwood Mac)

I first heard her on Chicken Shack's version of I'd Rather go Blind back in 1969, but she was Christine Perfect then. Loved the track, and I must've been one of my first purchases.

Beautiful singer. RIP.

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Braybuddy

Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - Discussion Thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o80Km46 ... nysDavydov

Braybuddy

Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - Discussion Thread

This is hilarious. Even Putins "friends" are distancing themselves now: https://twitter.com/b_nishanov/status/1595475035233390593 Putin looking slightly uncomfortable! And the Armenian prime minister goes even further: https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1595720663427334144 Putin ha...

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Braybuddy

Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - Discussion Thread

Looks like a country on the verge of imploding. From the Moscow Times : https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/11/23/how-exactly-could-the-putin-regime-collapse-a79451 "At the same time, the regime has no chance of survival in its current form. The lack of a path to victory not only in Ukraine but...

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Braybuddy

Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - Discussion Thread

What Russia is doing is make Ukraine uninhabitable for the next 4-5 months. Don’t be surprised there will be another wave of refugees going west soon, putting strain on European countries and deteriorating support for Ukraine. That's already happening, which makes it imperative we fully support the...

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Braybuddy

Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - Discussion Thread

Ukraine suffers heavy damage to its electrical grid, Denys Davydov decides he needs to leave Ukraine for reasons of safety for him and his family, his need to provide for them via youtube uploads and passing an EU pilot's license exam, and the need for his school-aged daughter to get education whic...

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Braybuddy

Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - Discussion Thread

Retired US Lt. General Ben Hodges believes there will be a powers struggle in Russia over the next six months, and says The Hague will soon be making announcements about investigations into genocide and the deportation of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian children: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8...

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Braybuddy

Re: At the last minute, Qatar bans beer from WC matches

I don’t know if you are joking or if you were home from school the day the rest of your class learnt about tolerance. If you want to quote your 20th century philosophers go ahead, but the other 20th century philosopher John Rawls believed we should allow intolerance as a right, or freedom, as long ...

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Braybuddy

Re: At the last minute, Qatar bans beer from WC matches

M564038 wrote:
The limit of tolerance is to not tolerate intolerance.

A classic oxymoron.

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Braybuddy

Re: At the last minute, Qatar bans beer from WC matches

Arcceptance of removal of ability to demonstrate a belief != tolerance of another’s belief. One is an action limiting another’s freedom, the other is practicing a personal freedom, which doesn’t affect another’s personal freedom. There is a difference: you have a right to believe what you want, but...

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Braybuddy

Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - Discussion Thread

Not to defend those parroting Putin’s BS, however if you don’t agree with the war there is the up to 15 years in prison as a disincentive. But there is a limit to that, as the body and MIA count goes up and with the latter, in most relatives minds becomes inevitably the former, as more are from the...

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Braybuddy

Re: At the last minute, Qatar bans beer from WC matches

And you can be as angry as you want with whoever you want for whatever you want and I’m happy with that but the moment you reduce someone’s freedoms because of their opinions instead of their actions then you are effectively punishing a thought crime and that is a step too far. I think the fact tha...

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Braybuddy

Re: At the last minute, Qatar bans beer from WC matches

flipdewaf wrote:
Braybuddy wrote:
M564038 wrote:
Why, exactly shouldn’t one complain about
that?

Qatar are kicking dogs right now…

Oops! Be careful with your metaphors or you'll have the LGBTQ+ police after you! We're a hypersensitive bunch, you know

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Braybuddy

Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - Discussion Thread

Not to defend those parroting Putin’s BS, however if you don’t agree with the war there is the up to 15 years in prison as a disincentive. But there is a limit to that, as the body and MIA count goes up and with the latter, in most relatives minds becomes inevitably the former, as more are from the...

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Braybuddy

Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - Discussion Thread

Seems there will be more than one place to dig: An intercepted phone call from a Russian soldier in May said that his comrades had been buried in “a dump the height of a man” just outside occupied Donetsk. “There’s so much Cargo 200 [military code for dead soldiers] that the mountains of corpses ar...

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Braybuddy

Re: At the last minute, Qatar bans beer from WC matches

M564038 wrote:
It is absolutely nothing like that at all.

Why not? You're a guest: you antagonise your host, and he retaliates. Same difference.

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Braybuddy

Re: At the last minute, Qatar bans beer from WC matches

M564038 wrote:
Why, exactly shouldn’t one complain about
that?

It's a bit like kicking a dog and then complaining about being bitten, IMHO.

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Braybuddy

Re: At the last minute, Qatar bans beer from WC matches

If those LGBTQ+ activists were really true to their beliefs, they wouldn't have gone to Qatar in the first place. And therefore give in to Qatar's inherent homophobia? This is not how it works. What you are saying is that some members of the community should not be allowed to attend the football Wo...

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Braybuddy

Re: At the last minute, Qatar bans beer from WC matches

Shamefully pathetic, despite the views of one here. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-63710435 An ex-Wales footballer has described being asked to remove her "rainbow wall" bucket hat as she entered a World Cup stadium in Qatar. Laura McAllister, a gay woman and past Fifa Council candid...

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Braybuddy

Re: At the last minute, Qatar bans beer from WC matches

Either that, or they learned about rainbows from South Park: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K7NBDweRzw I kind-of know the feeling :D Thing is, in most Middle Eastern countries, women are so controlled, and unavailable, that it's not unusual for men to have sex with each other. It's not homosexual...

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Braybuddy

Re: At the last minute, Qatar bans beer from WC matches

scbriml wrote:
As reported on ITV’s live coverage of Wales vs USA, fans had rainbow hats confiscated on the basis they were “banned symbols”. What are Qatar and FIFA so scared of? Does the mere sight of a rainbow turn Qatari’s gay?

Ha ha . . . looks like we've completely ruined rainbows

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Braybuddy

Re: At the last minute, Qatar bans beer from WC matches

Revelation wrote:

Gays to be publicly flogged

You'd be surprised at the amount of us who wouldn't object

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Braybuddy

Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - Discussion Thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_za0B2wJW6k

Braybuddy

Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - Discussion Thread

More cracks in the Kremlin: Alexander Dugin -- otherwise known as Putin's brain, who is believed to have created the blueprint for the invasion of Ukraine -- called on Telegram for Putin to be overthrown or killed over the retreat from Kherson. He later deleted the post: https://www.youtube.com/watc...

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Braybuddy

Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - Discussion Thread

Too bad he didn't suggest how Ukraine is going to cross the Dnipro, nor to my knowledge has he given his sources for his reports that Ukraine has ATACMS. His presentations the last two episodes about the desert-like geography of area south of the lower Dnipro were interesting. It's clear it's not a...

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