Comment & snippets

[The Mask]

"You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending" C.S. Lewis

 

[The Mask]

"All I ask for is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy." Spike Milligan

 

[blueandwhitehalves]

You're an enigmatic bloke Mr Mask. Some excellent posts in this topic and none elsewhere

 

[yoda]

You're an enigmatic bloke Mr Mask. Some excellent posts in this topic and none elsewhere

Maybe it's Dawkin's alter ego, have you ever seen them together ?

 

[blueandwhitehalves]

Maybe it's Dawkin's alter ego, have you ever seen them together ?

Richard Dawkins?

 

[yoda]

Richard Dawkins?

No, our resident old hack John, Jim, Chris

 

[davebirch]

That person on the Murdoch payroll

 

[Drog]

Go easy on the old fella, If we didn't have him we'd have to invent him!

 

[Steve Moss]

This quote from Winston Churchill always makes me think of the Rovers (though not this season):

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”

 

[The Mask]

"Some people become so expert at reading between the lines that they don't read the lines."
Margaret Millar

 

[The Mask]

“At the National Rifle Association annual conference last week, the star speakers were Donald Trump and his vice-president, Mike Pence. Their visit seems to have gone off smoothly, but one thing puzzled me. For some reason, no one entering the hall for their speeches was allowed to bring a gun. I have to say, that sounds very risky. After all, as the NRA itself explains after each school shooting, banning guns is dangerous. What if a bad guy with a gun had got in? All the good guys would have been unable to stop him. Next time Trump is due to give a speech, the NRA should hand out free guns to everyone within a ten-mile radius. Just to be on the safe side.”
Michael Deacon (The Daily Telegraph)

 

[The Mask]

"Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied"
Bismarck

 

[Vinjay]

“At the National Rifle Association annual conference last week, the star speakers were Donald Trump and his vice-president, Mike Pence. Their visit seems to have gone off smoothly, but one thing puzzled me. For some reason, no one entering the hall for their speeches was allowed to bring a gun. I have to say, that sounds very risky. After all, as the NRA itself explains after each school shooting, banning guns is dangerous. What if a bad guy with a gun had got in? All the good guys would have been unable to stop him. Next time Trump is due to give a speech, the NRA should hand out free guns to everyone within a ten-mile radius. Just to be on the safe side.”
Michael Deacon (The Daily Telegraph)

While the gun debate for me has many shades of grey (one being that I'm not a US citizen and don't feel it's my responsibility to debate a largely domestic issue in depth) have to agree with the logic there somewhat. If only because of how it ties in with the other "logic".

The secret service and bodyguards must have had guns though?

 

[The Mask]

"I doubt alcohol kills more people than it creates". John LeFevre

 

[yoda]

Someone must have been pissed to create Corbyn and co

 

[The Mask]

"Your guilty conscience may move you to vote Democrat, but deep down you long for a cold-hearted Republican to lower taxes, brutalise criminals and rule you like a king."
Sideshow Bob, The Simpsons.

 

[The Mask]

"Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face."
Mike Tyson

 

[The Mask]

"A woman drove me to drink and I never even wrote to thank her" W C Fields

 

[The Mask]

"A double negative is a complete no no". Kathy Lette

 

[The Mask]

Topically.

"In Britain, to govern is difficult. In Italy it is pointless."
Daily Telegraph