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Jinxy<shakes his head, and thinks the yanks have learnt nothing from history and are on a hiding to nothing.
I learned not to touch a hot stove mate.
If i stop laughing long enough, ill come back to that.Quote:
I learned not to touch a hot stove mate.
jinxy: dont take the ignorance of some of us to represent all of us, or i will start pushing the idea that soccer hudlums represent all brits :)
Some of us do know the difference between Hamas (regional terrorist group that wants to get isrial back into palistinian hands) and Al-Quida (global group with a gola of formeing a panaribic islamisist state.).
As for the artist formerly know as cat...a pacifest dose not call for the murder of another man just because he wrote a book you don't like. Cat was calling for the murder of Salamin Rushdi because of "Satanic Verses" this to me puts him very close to the relm of fundimentalist nut job and by extention terrorist.
That's pretty much a true statement. :DQuote:
soccer hudlums represent all brits
RoadClosed, you should see 'em fight over a dart match.
I used to play in a dart league over there. Never fought just got drunk after the match and ate pickled onion sandys.
I can't reply to that, exept to say i have never heard anything to suggest that it is true.Quote:
As for the artist formerly know as cat...a pacifest dose not call for the murder of another man just because he wrote a book you don't like. Cat was calling for the murder of Salamin Rushdi because of "Satanic Verses" this to me puts him very close to the relm of fundimentalist nut job and by extention terrorist.
From:http://catstevens.com/Quote:
YUSUF ISLAM'S OFFICIAL STATEMENT
First, I thank God for relieving me of my ordeal and delivering me home safe; also, thanks to all those who prayed for me and supported me through this whole dark episode, from eminent politicians, the press and religious leaders, to plain, everyday people. Never would I believe that such a thing could happen in the ‘land of the free’ - unfortunately, it did. But it’s warming to have such a wave of sympathy from my friends and my worldwide well-wishers.
After the experience of my dramatic deportation from the U.S.A. it feels like I am on a different planet from the one I was on a couple of days ago; certainly the world has changed, not for the best. Two days beforehand, I had started a journey with my daughter to Nashville, intending to initiate work on a new recording project. Suddenly, our aeroplane was diverted 600 miles to Bangor International Airport and I found myself surrounded by six uniformed officers and handed over to the FBI for questioning.
The most upsetting thing at this point was being separated from my daughter, Maymanah, not knowing how she was or when and where we might be united. And since my phone was confiscated I couldn’t contact my family (nor could they ring me) and they were relegated to watching the whole frightening episode on TV and surviving on scraps of information shown by the media.
My interrogators repeatedly wanted to know how my name was spelt; it sounded to me as though they had it mixed up with someone else’s. Security officers finally told me that my name was on a ‘No Fly List’, I was classified as ‘Inadmissible’, and sent back to London.
The amazing thing is that I was not given (and have still not been given) any explanation whatsoever as to what it is I am accused of, or why I am now deemed an apparent security threat - let alone given an opportunity to respond to these allegations. I was simply told that the order had come from ‘on high’.
We have now initiated a legal process to try to find out exactly what is going on, and to take all necessary steps to undo the very serious, and wholly unfounded, injustice which I have suffered.
I am a man of peace and denounce all forms of terrorism and injustice; it is simply outrageous for the U.S. authorities to suggest otherwise. I have dedicated my life to promoting peace and understanding throughout the world. It would be devastating were the charity work I do through my humanitarian relief organisation, Small Kindness, which helps countless children and families, and which is accredited by the United Nations, to be undermined by what has happened.
What makes the situation even more distressing is the fact that I have now been prevented from entering the United States - a part of God’s earth that I love and whose people have always been great friends to me.
Yet, after all this, I can think of no better response than by continuing what I believe to be the tremendously important work of caring for the needy and campaigning for peace and stability in this volatile and increasingly violent world, and at the same time try to seek to clear my name of this appalling and baseless slur. In the meantime I am confident that, in the end, good sense and, above all, justice, will prevail.
I would like to point out at this time that i am not a fan or lover of his music. On the contrary, i can't stand his music.
As for the foootball hooliganism. it suprises me no end that the world does not equate all of us Brits with it more than they do. Mind you after 90 minutes of watching some overpaid fools kick a ball around a field, what can you expect. It would drive me to the point of violence just to get over the boardom :D
As for the Darts, last time i played for a team many moons ago, I had to be helped to the ocky for the beer leg. There was some very lovely young ladies with Miss Carlsbereg sashes serving the beer, I sware they didn;t let you take more than one swig befor they topped your pint back up. Oh those were the days :D ................Never did see any fighting though.............Ice man, you must have hung around some ruff places over here. Having said that it does'nt take that much for a bunch of drunken Brits to kick off. It's one of the down sides of giving up the Empire, there are no fuzzywuzzies to beat the **** out of anymore. :D
as it turns out cat was mistaken for someone else because of a spelling oversight. this is really unfortunate and im glad it didn't happen to me (if it did i would understand) but i would still rather see the wrong people kept out rather than the wrong people let in. what happened to cat can be undone but the same couldn't be said if the wrong people were let in.
Spelling in his new name? Interesting. I guess finger print readers would have corrected the error by a positive ID?