Thoughts of the day every day in 2014

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This is sooooo cute



More cute

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I am going to buy myself a small hand-held vacuum cleaner first thing tomorrow

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29 April

RBK has returned

I wonder how long it will stay up this time

I am fed up with all he stupid people who try to cause this site problems

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30 April

HELLO ROJ BASH KURDISTAN

Lovely to have you back again

Wonder if you will still be here later this evening so I could play games

I cannot best Piling

I need more practise

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1 May

Perhaps I should have written Hello and Goodbye at the same time

I hope this site stays up long enough this time for me to play Mah-jong

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2 May

Golly gosh the forum is still running

Just thought I would say

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3 May

BBC News Entertainment & Arts

Jeremy Clarkson: BBC gave me final warning

Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson says the BBC has told him he will be sacked if he makes "one more offensive remark, anywhere, at any time".

Writing in the Sun, Clarkson insisted he did not use a racist word while reciting the nursery rhyme Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe in an out-take from the show that was published by the Daily Mirror.

Although he mumbles the word, Clarkson begins by saying the letter "n".

The BBC says it "left him in no doubt about how seriously we view this".

'Begging forgiveness'

Clarkson was initially accused of using the "n-word" on Thursday by the Daily Mirror, which said it had hired "audio forensic experts" to analyse the clip it had obtained.

The presenter initially told his 3.3 million Twitter followers: "I did not use the N-word. Never use it. The Mirror has gone way too far this time."

Later that day after the newspaper posted a clip of the incident - which was filmed in 2012 and never broadcast - he released a video statement "begging forgiveness" for the error.



This time, he admitted he had appeared to "mumble" the offensive word despite attempting not to.

Clarkson wrote in the Sun, where he has a weekly column: "I've been told by the BBC that if I make one more offensive remark, anywhere, at any time, I will be sacked.

"And even the angel Gabriel would struggle to survive with that hanging over his head.

"It's inevitable that one day, someone, somewhere will say that I've offended them, and that will be that."

He also said the BBC had told him "very firmly" to apologise but added: "Apologising for using the n-word would be the same as apologising for starting the war in Syria. It's something I hadn't done."

Clarkson added: "I use the F-word pretty much constantly and the C-word too, especially when I'm talking about James May. But the N-word? No. It's not in my lexicon."

He also highlighted that the expert used by the Daily Mirror had told LBC that she could only be 75% certain the word was used.

Michelle Bowman of digital forensics company CY4OR told Nick Ferrari: "You can't be 100% certain, it's not an exact science. Ideally you would want to compare that phrase with a phrase where the word is said or where a different word is said."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27266102

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England has become a political correctness police state

Everyone is afraid of saying or doing anything that might offend a non-English person

I thought it was bad enough when my friends school held Chinese New Year Celebrations - then were forbidden to hold St Georges Day Celebrations

Earlier this year an 80 year old gentleman died from political correctness after being thrown out if a charity he had been helping to run for many years - just because he was overheard saying a non-politically correct word

I HATE political correctness - especially as it is always aimed at the indigenous population

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Clarkson added: "I use the F-word pretty much constantly and the C-word too, especially when I'm talking about James May. But the N-word? No. It's not in my lexicon.

Beside questionable term concerning race, you are too funny with your forbidden F. and C. that make mute beep on your media. In France no one cares of that, and everybody know that the kids have more vocabulary than their parents, so on our TV, radio, etc., no beep for 'va te faire foutre !' 'Putain !'' 'Merde!' etc.

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Clarkson added: "I use the F-word pretty much constantly and the C-word too, especially when I'm talking about James May. But the N-word? No. It's not in my lexicon.

Beside questionable term concerning race, you are too funny with your forbidden F. and C. that make mute beep on your media. In France no one cares of that, and everybody know that the kids have more vocabulary than their parents, so on our TV, radio, etc., no beep for 'va te faire foutre !' 'Putain !'' 'Merde!' etc.

I have just found out what those expressions mean - as you rightly point out - all you would hear on English TV are the BEEPS

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We are shameless people. For wishing good luck to someone before an examination, for example, or any hard moment to success, we say MERDE as a 'porte-bonheur'

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We are shameless people. For wishing good luck to someone before an examination, for example, or any hard moment to success, we say MERDE as a 'porte-bonheur'

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4 May

Summer has come

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5 May

Real holiday weather today

The great thing about living where I do - is that sunny days I just walk out into the lovely countryside