The Official Nonsense Thread

[Minty]

(26-10-2015 02:52 AM)simspeaker4 Wrote:  I knew you guys had Tories as well (they are not usually liked here in Canada either) as Liberals (names we borrowed from you guys).
Also, us Canucks make good cannon fodder. Since the days of the First World War, anyway.

And Dieppe, of course. One of the most shameful episodes of WW2.

(26-10-2015 07:56 PM)Wandarine Wrote:  

Quote: We have a party called the Liberal Democrats, which came from a merger between the Liberals & the Social Democrats, but some would argue they don't stand for anything really anymore except hoping to get into power as part of coalitions

This sounds so much like the german social democrats party, the SPD.

Edit: Only now do I read that Minty's talking about Merkel as if she was legitimately ruling the EU O.o Kind of scary, isn't it, that she's seen as someone who has the power to kick Poland out of the EU while she's actually only leader of ONE European country?

I think the German equivalent to the Liberal Democrats is the Free Democrats, i.e. once liberals who now would sell their granny never for power.

Germany ought to attach a dynamo to Gustav Streseman's grave, there would be enough energy generated from him spinning in it they could do away with all their remaining nuclear & fossil fuel plants forever.

(27-10-2015 09:07 PM)Caspin Wrote:  "Hoping" being the operative word! I think the Lib Dems may now appear in dictionaries as an illustration for the word "irrelevance".

Trouble with the Lib Dems/Libs is every time you think they're finished they have a nasty habit of fortune playing their way. After the Jeremy Thorpe murder plot trial everyone thought they were finished & expected Slimy Dave, the fat child molester from Rochdale & Clement "Winalot" Freud to be on the dole, only for the Alliance to happen & rescue their hides.

(Someone I knew at school had David Steel for their uncle, he said Steel and his mate Archie Kirkwood had all the principles of Burke & Hare!)

(27-10-2015 09:07 PM)Caspin Wrote:  Let us move away for a moment from the political sphere and international relations and consider instead the important matter of the day. My chilli plants! Thank you, simspeaker, for the link. I must say the plants in that website look a lot better than mine! I think they are a victim of their own success- there are too many chillies for the plant to support. I am considering a cull, or, as I prefer to term it, an edit.

Shouldn't it be a "pick"?