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Now you are getting silly, where on Earth would you find a group of people using 'handles' instead of their real names ?
Ah, but before mobiles became usable in the mountains, my ski mate and I used to carry 90s/2000s CB radios, because we’d always venture off on our own, in my case not anywhere marked. Bit pointless given if there was a hill in the way the things wouldn’t work, but it was just a laugh. A bit of fun.
He was always called Rebel (his hero is General Robert E Lee, not the Duke boys car!) and a was always Maverick. Daft? Ohhh yes, but it was a bit of fun and a tiny (very tiny) bit of back up if there was a problem and a way of meeting up for a hot chocolate (beer, wine, bread bowl chilli etc).
I think we both just loved Convoy.
Verse 3
Well, we rolled up Innerstate fourty-four Like a rocket sled on rails We tore up all of our swindle sheets And left 'em settin' on the scales By the time we hit that Chi-Town Them bears was a gettin' smart They'd brought up some reinforcements From the Illinois National Guard There's armored cars and tanks and jeeps And rigs of every size Yeah, them chicken coops was full of bears And choppers filled the skies Well, we shot the line We went for broke With a thousand screamin' trucks And eleven long haired Friends of Jesus In a Chartreuse microbus
Shakespeare, Byron, Thomas, Keats (Ode to a Grecian Urn?? Do one), Wordsworth - suck it up.
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Visiting America on 18:49 - Mar 22 with 2343 views
Ah, but before mobiles became usable in the mountains, my ski mate and I used to carry 90s/2000s CB radios, because we’d always venture off on our own, in my case not anywhere marked. Bit pointless given if there was a hill in the way the things wouldn’t work, but it was just a laugh. A bit of fun.
He was always called Rebel (his hero is General Robert E Lee, not the Duke boys car!) and a was always Maverick. Daft? Ohhh yes, but it was a bit of fun and a tiny (very tiny) bit of back up if there was a problem and a way of meeting up for a hot chocolate (beer, wine, bread bowl chilli etc).
I think we both just loved Convoy.
Verse 3
Well, we rolled up Innerstate fourty-four Like a rocket sled on rails We tore up all of our swindle sheets And left 'em settin' on the scales By the time we hit that Chi-Town Them bears was a gettin' smart They'd brought up some reinforcements From the Illinois National Guard There's armored cars and tanks and jeeps And rigs of every size Yeah, them chicken coops was full of bears And choppers filled the skies Well, we shot the line We went for broke With a thousand screamin' trucks And eleven long haired Friends of Jesus In a Chartreuse microbus
Shakespeare, Byron, Thomas, Keats (Ode to a Grecian Urn?? Do one), Wordsworth - suck it up.
Well just as long as you used handles and didn't go ruining the avatars...
Back with my wife in Tennessee When one day she called to me "Virgil, quick, come see, There goes Robert E. Lee!" Now, I don't mind chopping wood And I don't care if the money's no good You take what you need And you leave the rest But they should never Have taken the very best The night they drove old Dixie down And the bells were ringing The night they drove old Dixie down And all the people were singing They went, "Na, na, la, na, na, la"
Well just as long as you used handles and didn't go ruining the avatars...
Back with my wife in Tennessee When one day she called to me "Virgil, quick, come see, There goes Robert E. Lee!" Now, I don't mind chopping wood And I don't care if the money's no good You take what you need And you leave the rest But they should never Have taken the very best The night they drove old Dixie down And the bells were ringing The night they drove old Dixie down And all the people were singing They went, "Na, na, la, na, na, la"
Where is Facters these days ?
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Haha, would never have dreamt of it!
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Visiting America on 05:28 - Mar 23 with 2226 views
My Suzuki S-Class has three four wheel drive settings, does that count ?
Definitely.
My first 4x4 was a Toyota Hilux around 1988 it had normal drive then two settings for 4x4,but to get it in 4 wheel drive you had to lock the front hubs first.
I was working on site in Clacton-On-Sea when I first got it,and there was a cockney scaffolder on the same site he always said I was a ‘do as you likey’ with my pickup.
Well just as long as you used handles and didn't go ruining the avatars...
Back with my wife in Tennessee When one day she called to me "Virgil, quick, come see, There goes Robert E. Lee!" Now, I don't mind chopping wood And I don't care if the money's no good You take what you need And you leave the rest But they should never Have taken the very best The night they drove old Dixie down And the bells were ringing The night they drove old Dixie down And all the people were singing They went, "Na, na, la, na, na, la"
if the views that she has expressed are the only reason the immigration officials acted then this is truly appalling.
And so as the loose-bowelled pigeon of time swoops low over the unsuspecting tourist of destiny, and the flatulent skunk of fate wanders into the air-conditioning system of eternity, I notice it's the end of the show
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Visiting America on 17:17 - Mar 27 with 1642 views
I live in California and don’t see anything changed here. Nothing to be concerned about for now traveling to any USA city. The best cities to visit are Palm Springs/Joshua Tree, New Orleans, Monterey/Carmel and Washington DC in my opinion. Manhattan has a vibe that everyone should catch once in their life but a visit is not essential.
New travel rules are being administered by many countries including UK and world travel will change over next 6 months. To enter UK now you need prior permission and you have to pay an entry tax.
Really? A colleague travelled to LA this week for a conference but didn’t get beyond customs. Was detained for over 24hrs during which he wasn’t allowed to contact anyone and so no one heard from him, including his wife and kids, until he sent a message over a day later saying he’d been taken by police on to a UK flight and deported. No explanation why, despite when he set off having a valid ESTA. He now has a 10-year ban from travelling to the US.
Previous to this year he’d regularly travelled to the US three or four times a year with no issues. So you may think nothing has changed, but something clearly has.
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Visiting America on 18:07 - Mar 27 with 1583 views
I live in California and don’t see anything changed here. Nothing to be concerned about for now traveling to any USA city. The best cities to visit are Palm Springs/Joshua Tree, New Orleans, Monterey/Carmel and Washington DC in my opinion. Manhattan has a vibe that everyone should catch once in their life but a visit is not essential.
New travel rules are being administered by many countries including UK and world travel will change over next 6 months. To enter UK now you need prior permission and you have to pay an entry tax.
Entry Tax? Ni such thing. I suspect that you have been brainwashed by american media into confusing ETA (electronic travel authorisation) with 'entry tax'. It's equivalent to, but cheaper than, ESTA that foreign travellers have been required to get for entry into the states for decades,.
Really? A colleague travelled to LA this week for a conference but didn’t get beyond customs. Was detained for over 24hrs during which he wasn’t allowed to contact anyone and so no one heard from him, including his wife and kids, until he sent a message over a day later saying he’d been taken by police on to a UK flight and deported. No explanation why, despite when he set off having a valid ESTA. He now has a 10-year ban from travelling to the US.
Previous to this year he’d regularly travelled to the US three or four times a year with no issues. So you may think nothing has changed, but something clearly has.
Find it very hard to believe he was giving "no explanation", especially as a ten year ban would have to be documented.
In terms of people already here, interestingly, this February Trump deported few people than Biden did in Feb 2024.
Biden carried out a lot of deportations throughout his presidency actually, more than Trump's first term, this was likely due to border crossing being very high, which are now way down.
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Visiting America on 18:45 - Mar 27 with 1508 views
Visiting America on 17:27 - Mar 21 by lowhouseblue
Absolutely we should criticise trump for disregarding free speech. Even more so since as you say it goes against the US’s mythology and claims to champion such things. But my point about hypocrisy still stands - some people will criticise trump but only really differ in terms of free speech as to who they would choose to silence.
Congratulations on finding the shift key ... and not using it for Trump!
Congratulations on finding the shift key ... and not using it for Trump!
i posted that on my phone - which i do rarely - and i couldn't be bothered to fight with it at the start of each sentence. apologies.
And so as the loose-bowelled pigeon of time swoops low over the unsuspecting tourist of destiny, and the flatulent skunk of fate wanders into the air-conditioning system of eternity, I notice it's the end of the show
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Visiting America on 09:30 - Mar 28 with 1268 views
Museums now only allowed to perpetuate Trump's versions of US history, no other viewpoints will be tolerated.
presidents getting directly involved in things like museums seems very bad. but the context here is that the us is currently a hugely divided place. institutions like museums, the arts, universities are pretty much exclusively in the hands of people from one side of that divide. you have a bubble which has become separated off from much of the public. that division - with a single view point represented within those institutions and very little diversity of opinion there - makes those institutions political in the eyes of many americans. part of the lesson is that it is very bad for politicians to meddle in cultural institutions - another part is that it is also bad for those institutions to become so partisan and ideologically narrow that they lose the confidence of a large part of the public.
And so as the loose-bowelled pigeon of time swoops low over the unsuspecting tourist of destiny, and the flatulent skunk of fate wanders into the air-conditioning system of eternity, I notice it's the end of the show
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Visiting America on 17:16 - Mar 28 with 1016 views
Visiting America on 13:10 - Mar 28 by lowhouseblue
presidents getting directly involved in things like museums seems very bad. but the context here is that the us is currently a hugely divided place. institutions like museums, the arts, universities are pretty much exclusively in the hands of people from one side of that divide. you have a bubble which has become separated off from much of the public. that division - with a single view point represented within those institutions and very little diversity of opinion there - makes those institutions political in the eyes of many americans. part of the lesson is that it is very bad for politicians to meddle in cultural institutions - another part is that it is also bad for those institutions to become so partisan and ideologically narrow that they lose the confidence of a large part of the public.
That's a very long but.
For my own part, the idea of governments trying to control what cultural institutions do seems completely at variance with cultural freedom. Indeed, it has shades of what the Nazis did to the Bauhaus movement.
Visiting America on 13:10 - Mar 28 by lowhouseblue
presidents getting directly involved in things like museums seems very bad. but the context here is that the us is currently a hugely divided place. institutions like museums, the arts, universities are pretty much exclusively in the hands of people from one side of that divide. you have a bubble which has become separated off from much of the public. that division - with a single view point represented within those institutions and very little diversity of opinion there - makes those institutions political in the eyes of many americans. part of the lesson is that it is very bad for politicians to meddle in cultural institutions - another part is that it is also bad for those institutions to become so partisan and ideologically narrow that they lose the confidence of a large part of the public.
Well, that's one take. Your ability to both sides everything is quite something.
For my own part, the idea of governments trying to control what cultural institutions do seems completely at variance with cultural freedom. Indeed, it has shades of what the Nazis did to the Bauhaus movement.
And the problem is, where does it stop?
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i agree - as i said the president getting involved in things like museums is bad. but (apologies) can you really have cultural freedom if publicly funded institutions such as these are controlled by one side of a very divided society; if within those institutions there is little in the way of diversity of view; and a large swathe of the public feel ideologically excluded from and alienated from those institutions? shouldn't cultural institutions carry wider public support than from just one side of a political divide?
also - surely it must be possible to express disagreement without mentioning the nazis?
And so as the loose-bowelled pigeon of time swoops low over the unsuspecting tourist of destiny, and the flatulent skunk of fate wanders into the air-conditioning system of eternity, I notice it's the end of the show
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