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By (user no longer on site) OP     over a year ago

Tank fly boss walk jam nitty-gritty. You're listening to the boy from the big bad Salop . This is Jim hot, this is Jim hot.

Hello! Cowabunga tattva namaste. And of course, good eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevening. What's on your beautiful mind? What you up to? Working? Pervin'? Lurking? Whatever you're doing, share it here. Chat with other pervy night owls and pervy night flamingos. Talk about absolutely anything you want.

Newbies, thread watchers, you're very welcome here. Very, very welcome.

Don't be shy, give us a try.

Let's nocturnal. Smileyface

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By *eroLondonMan  over a year ago

Covent Garden

(Message deleted by Nero because he's unwaveringly quickity-quick ÅnD he fancies a Hob Nob!)

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By *inky_couple2020Couple  over a year ago

North West


"(Message deleted by Nero because he's unwaveringly quickity-quick ÅnD he fancies a Hob Nob!)"

^^^He's a hob nobber

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By (user no longer on site) OP     over a year ago


"(Message deleted by Nero because he's unwaveringly quickity-quick ÅnD he fancies a Hob Nob!)"

You've just won yourself a Nero in Shrewsbury. Congratulations tonight's ²nd ¹st poster.

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By (user no longer on site) OP     over a year ago


"(Message deleted by Nero because he's unwaveringly quickity-quick ÅnD he fancies a Hob Nob!)

^^^He's a hob nobber"

You're a hob nobber too.

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By (user no longer on site) OP     over a year ago

I didn't think we were going to make it to extra time.

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago

I used to have the most awesome pair of hot pink leather gloves.

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago

What does k 9 mean, other than a police dog ? I tried to post the song I'm listening to on the other thread and got a warning saying its restricted because I can't talk about k 9. I have no idea what that means ha, it was a totally innocent song, no dodgy words!

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By (user no longer on site) OP     over a year ago

I may have wasted internet paper starting this thread.

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By *eroLondonMan  over a year ago

Covent Garden

... so, anyway, hear me out...

You know when you rub your eyes really hard and for a long time and then let go. And then all you see is swirly sparkly flashing lights of kaleidoscopic supernova imagery blinking multitudes of spectral colour...?

That's how my eyes felt after I looked at Lana Del Hey's profile.

The last time I felt like that was last year when I looked at KC²'s eponymous profile.

Weird huh?

I'm now going to listen to Melí's voice on her singleton profile video. It's sophisticatingly posh.

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By (user no longer on site) OP     over a year ago


"I used to have the most awesome pair of hot pink leather gloves. "

Buy yourself some new ones!

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By (user no longer on site) OP     over a year ago


"What does k 9 mean, other than a police dog ? I tried to post the song I'm listening to on the other thread and got a warning saying its restricted because I can't talk about k 9. I have no idea what that means ha, it was a totally innocent song, no dodgy words! "

I bet there's no doggy words either.

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago


"... so, anyway, hear me out...

You know when you rub your eyes really hard and for a long time and then let go. And then all you see is swirly sparkly flashing lights of kaleidoscopic supernova imagery blinking multitudes of spectral colour...?

That's how my eyes felt after I looked at Lana Del Hey's profile.

The last time I felt like that was last year when I looked at KC²'s eponymous profile.

Weird huh?

I'm now going to listen to Melí's voice on her singleton profile video. It's sophisticatingly posh."

I...I gave you a migraine?

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By (user no longer on site) OP     over a year ago


"... so, anyway, hear me out...

You know when you rub your eyes really hard and for a long time and then let go. And then all you see is swirly sparkly flashing lights of kaleidoscopic supernova imagery blinking multitudes of spectral colour...?

That's how my eyes felt after I looked at Lana Del Hey's profile.

The last time I felt like that was last year when I looked at KC²'s eponymous profile.

Weird huh?

I'm now going to listen to Melí's voice on her singleton profile video. It's sophisticatingly posh."

Weird.

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By (user no longer on site) OP     over a year ago

Let's play Jim's Spotify Surprise. The first person to give me the name of an act, I'll listen to the act. I'll search for the act on my Spotify, and press play.

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago


"What does k 9 mean, other than a police dog ? I tried to post the song I'm listening to on the other thread and got a warning saying its restricted because I can't talk about k 9. I have no idea what that means ha, it was a totally innocent song, no dodgy words!

I bet there's no doggy words either."

There's not, I combed it thinking something canine-y might be hidden in there but nada. It's a mystery

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By *eroLondonMan  over a year ago

Covent Garden

M

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By *eroLondonMan  over a year ago

Covent Garden


"... so, anyway, hear me out...

You know when you rub your eyes really hard and for a long time and then let go. And then all you see is swirly sparkly flashing lights of kaleidoscopic supernova imagery blinking multitudes of spectral colour...?

That's how my eyes felt after I looked at Lana Del Hey's profile.

The last time I felt like that was last year when I looked at KC²'s eponymous profile.

Weird huh?

I'm now going to listen to Melí's voice on her singleton profile video. It's sophisticatingly posh.

I...I gave you a migraine? "

No, it's your graine. Not mine.

But it was a compliment.

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By *inky_couple2020Couple  over a year ago

North West


"... so, anyway, hear me out...

You know when you rub your eyes really hard and for a long time and then let go. And then all you see is swirly sparkly flashing lights of kaleidoscopic supernova imagery blinking multitudes of spectral colour...?

That's how my eyes felt after I looked at Lana Del Hey's profile.

The last time I felt like that was last year when I looked at KC²'s eponymous profile.

Weird huh?

I'm now going to listen to Melí's voice on her singleton profile video. It's sophisticatingly posh."

Yeah, my baps are well known to confuse and distress the average viewer. Apologies for the disturbance to your vision

(The proprietors of this profile cannot be held responsible for any harm, injury or distress caused to viewers. Discretion is advised. Certificate: 42)

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By *inky_couple2020Couple  over a year ago

North West


"Let's play Jim's Spotify Surprise. The first person to give me the name of an act, I'll listen to the act. I'll search for the act on my Spotify, and press play."

Black........

The Eagles

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By *eroLondonMan  over a year ago

Covent Garden


"Let's play Jim's Spotify Surprise. The first person to give me the name of an act, I'll listen to the act. I'll search for the act on my Spotify, and press play."

M

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By (user no longer on site) OP     over a year ago


"What does k 9 mean, other than a police dog ? I tried to post the song I'm listening to on the other thread and got a warning saying its restricted because I can't talk about k 9. I have no idea what that means ha, it was a totally innocent song, no dodgy words!

I bet there's no doggy words either.

There's not, I combed it thinking something canine-y might be hidden in there but nada. It's a mystery "

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago


"Let's play Jim's Spotify Surprise. The first person to give me the name of an act, I'll listen to the act. I'll search for the act on my Spotify, and press play."

Mattiel

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago


"... so, anyway, hear me out...

You know when you rub your eyes really hard and for a long time and then let go. And then all you see is swirly sparkly flashing lights of kaleidoscopic supernova imagery blinking multitudes of spectral colour...?

That's how my eyes felt after I looked at Lana Del Hey's profile.

The last time I felt like that was last year when I looked at KC²'s eponymous profile.

Weird huh?

I'm now going to listen to Melí's voice on her singleton profile video. It's sophisticatingly posh.

I...I gave you a migraine?

No, it's your graine. Not mine.

But it was a compliment."

Thank you!

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By (user no longer on site) OP     over a year ago


"M"

Eye.

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By *eroLondonMan  over a year ago

Covent Garden


"... so, anyway, hear me out...

You know when you rub your eyes really hard and for a long time and then let go. And then all you see is swirly sparkly flashing lights of kaleidoscopic supernova imagery blinking multitudes of spectral colour...?

That's how my eyes felt after I looked at Lana Del Hey's profile.

The last time I felt like that was last year when I looked at KC²'s eponymous profile.

Weird huh?

I'm now going to listen to Melí's voice on her singleton profile video. It's sophisticatingly posh.

Yeah, my baps are well known to confuse and distress the average viewer. Apologies for the disturbance to your vision

(The proprietors of this profile cannot be held responsible for any harm, injury or distress caused to viewers. Discretion is advised. Certificate: 42)"

Cleverly put KC². However I was referring to Mr KC's orange underpants.

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By (user no longer on site) OP     over a year ago


"Let's play Jim's Spotify Surprise. The first person to give me the name of an act, I'll listen to the act. I'll search for the act on my Spotify, and press play.

Black........

The Eagles "

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By *eroLondonMan  over a year ago

Covent Garden


"M

Eye."

https://youtu.be/gPoiv0sZ4s4

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By (user no longer on site) OP     over a year ago


"Let's play Jim's Spotify Surprise. The first person to give me the name of an act, I'll listen to the act. I'll search for the act on my Spotify, and press play.

Mattiel "

I was going to declare KC and the Moonlight Band the winners. But I think Nero won.

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago

That was fast, a new thread already lol

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By *eroLondonMan  over a year ago

Covent Garden


"That was fast, a new thread already lol"

We weave a tangled web Axxxxxxx. This is the finest silkiest thread. And it's all thanks to Jím.

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By *inky_couple2020Couple  over a year ago

North West


"Let's play Jim's Spotify Surprise. The first person to give me the name of an act, I'll listen to the act. I'll search for the act on my Spotify, and press play.

Mattiel

I was going to declare KC and the Moonlight Band the winners. But I think Nero won."

Doh! Should've said Black Lace

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By *inky_couple2020Couple  over a year ago

North West


"... so, anyway, hear me out...

You know when you rub your eyes really hard and for a long time and then let go. And then all you see is swirly sparkly flashing lights of kaleidoscopic supernova imagery blinking multitudes of spectral colour...?

That's how my eyes felt after I looked at Lana Del Hey's profile.

The last time I felt like that was last year when I looked at KC²'s eponymous profile.

Weird huh?

I'm now going to listen to Melí's voice on her singleton profile video. It's sophisticatingly posh.

Yeah, my baps are well known to confuse and distress the average viewer. Apologies for the disturbance to your vision

(The proprietors of this profile cannot be held responsible for any harm, injury or distress caused to viewers. Discretion is advised. Certificate: 42)

Cleverly put KC². However I was referring to Mr KC's orange underpants."

Not my boobies then? *Crys*

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By *eroLondonMan  over a year ago

Covent Garden


"Let's play Jim's Spotify Surprise. The first person to give me the name of an act, I'll listen to the act. I'll search for the act on my Spotify, and press play.

Mattiel

I was going to declare KC and the Moonlight Band the winners. But I think Nero won.

Doh! I Should've WORN Black Lace "

Why didn't you?

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By *eroLondonMan  over a year ago

Covent Garden


"... so, anyway, hear me out...

You know when you rub your eyes really hard and for a long time and then let go. And then all you see is swirly sparkly flashing lights of kaleidoscopic supernova imagery blinking multitudes of spectral colour...?

That's how my eyes felt after I looked at Lana Del Hey's profile.

The last time I felt like that was last year when I looked at KC²'s eponymous profile.

Weird huh?

I'm now going to listen to Melí's voice on her singleton profile video. It's sophisticatingly posh.

Yeah, my baps are well known to confuse and distress the average viewer. Apologies for the disturbance to your vision

(The proprietors of this profile cannot be held responsible for any harm, injury or distress caused to viewers. Discretion is advised. Certificate: 42)

Cleverly put KC². However I was referring to Mr KC's orange underpants.

Not my boobies then? *Crys* "

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By *eroLondonMan  over a year ago

Covent Garden

...and very abruptly I'm going to say GØØdníght.

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By (user no longer on site) OP     over a year ago


"That was fast, a new thread already lol

We weave a tangled web Axxxxxxx. This is the finest silkiest thread. And it's all thanks to Jím."

Ayyyy.

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By (user no longer on site) OP     over a year ago


"...and very abruptly I'm going to say GØØdníght."

I'm going to put M on now. Sleep tight.

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By *inky_couple2020Couple  over a year ago

North West


"...and very abruptly I'm going to say GØØdníght."

Porque?! I was about to put on my black lace. I'll just stick with the birthday suit

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By (user no longer on site) OP     over a year ago


"That was fast, a new thread already lol"

It was a slow fast thread.

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By (user no longer on site) OP     over a year ago

Are M a band or musician?!

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By (user no longer on site) OP     over a year ago

Pop music!

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By *inky_couple2020Couple  over a year ago

North West


"Are M a band or musician?!"

I thought it might be Boney M, but that's because I'm old

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By (user no longer on site) OP     over a year ago

Unfortunately M don't aren't on the Spotify, which is a shame. So I'm going to put the Eagles on.

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By (user no longer on site) OP     over a year ago


"Are M a band or musician?!

I thought it might be Boney M, but that's because I'm old "

Talk about, pop music.

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By (user no longer on site) OP     over a year ago

On this day 1809 Shrewsbury's Charles Darwin was born.

Shrewsbury remembers Charles Darwin, fuckin' everywhere.

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By *inky_couple2020Couple  over a year ago

North West


"On this day 1809 Shrewsbury's Charles Darwin was born.

Shrewsbury remembers Charles Darwin, fuckin' everywhere."

Awwwwww I love ol' Charlie. Him and his Beagle

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By (user no longer on site)  over a year ago

Hi all. Just doing some late night polite perving.

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By (user no longer on site) OP     over a year ago

On this day 1809 Abraham Lincoln was born.

At 6ft 4in (193cm) Lincoln remains the tallest of America’s 46 presidents. He also stands as one of the highest in esteem, according to polls of historians, politicians and the general public.

Another noted physical feature was Lincoln’s beard. He was the first president to have one, and he can thank an 11 year old girl for that distinction.

Grace Bedell of Westfield, New York, sent a letter to Lincoln in 1860, just before the presidential election, urging him to improve his appearance by growing a beard. Her letter read:

Oct 15. 1860

Hon A B Lincoln

Dear Sir

My father has just home from the fair and brought home your picture. . . I am a little girl only eleven years old, but want you should be President of the United States very much so I hope you wont think me very bold to write to such a great man as you are. . . I have got 4 brother's and part of them will vote for you any way and if you will let your whiskers grow I will try and get the rest of them to vote for you you would look a great deal better for your face is so thin. All the ladies like whiskers and they would tease their husband's to vote for you and then you would be President. My father is a going to vote for you and if I was a man I would vote for you to but I will try and get every one to vote for you that I can. . . I must not write any more answer this letter right off

Good bye

Grace Bedell

Lincoln took Grace’s advice, won the election, and thanked her in person when his train stopped at Westfield on February the 16th, 1861 on his way to Washington.

The New York World reported:

On reaching [Westfield, Mr Lincoln] said that if that young lady was in the crowd he should be glad to see her. There was a momentary commotion, in the midst of which an old man, struggling through the crowd, approached, leading his daughter . . . whom he introduced to Mr. Lincoln as his Westfield correspondent. Mr. Lincoln stooped down and kissed the child, and talked with her for some minutes.

Her advice had not been thrown away upon the rugged chieftain. A beard of several months growth covers (perhaps adorns) the lower part of his face. The young girl's peachy cheek must have been tickled with a stiff whisker, for the growth of which she was herself responsible.

Abraham Lincoln was born into poverty in a one room log cabin near Hodgenville, Kentucky. His father, Thomas, a poor pioneer, was a farmer and carpenter, and his mother, Nancy, was a seamstress.

Lincoln spent much of his youth working as a farmhand, but later became a merchant, a postmaster, a county surveyor and a lawyer, although he had no formal qualifications for any of these posts. He was largely self-educated and his total schooling, given to him by travelling teachers, is estimated to total only around one year.

But he was always a voracious reader and when he decided to become a lawyer he simply taught himself the law, then set up in practice in Springfield, Illinois, admitting later: "I studied with nobody.”

He sat in the Illinois state legislature from 1834 to 1842 and in 1846 was elected to Congress as a member of the Whig Party. In 1856, Lincoln joined the new Republican Party which had been formed two years earlier and in 1860 he was asked to run as their presidential candidate.

Lincoln won with 180 out of 303 electoral votes but less than 40 per cent of the popular vote. Only one president in US history has done worse than that – John Quincy Adams in 1824, when he mustered a mere 31 per cent of the popular vote.

Lincoln was particularly unpopular in the South where it was (rightly) feared that he would attempt to abolish s-lavery, and before the new president took office seven southern states left the Union to form the Confederate States of America, also known as the Confederacy. Four more joined later.

Describing their ideology, Confederate Vice-President Alexander H Stephens said it was based “upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that s-lavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition”.

This ran counter to everything that Lincoln believed, and as many Unionists saw leaders of the breakaway states as traitors, civil war seemed inevitable.

Fighting began on April the 12th, 1861, when Confederate soldiers attacked the Union’s Fort Sumter at Charleston, South Carolina. The war continued for four years and cost the lives of between 620,000 and 850,000 men. On April the 9th, 1865, Confederate general Robert E Lee surrendered, effectively ending the war.

While it raged, President Lincoln insisted that his “paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy s-lavery”. Nevertheless, he issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, which declared that as of January the 1st, 1863, all ens-laved people in the states currently engaged in rebellion against the Union “shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.”

He delivered the famous Gettysburg Address later that year calling for “government of the people, by the people, for the people”. Months later he stood for re-election and won. In his second inaugural address he was, typically, conciliatory towards the southern states. The address ended:

“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.”

But Lincoln got to serve only one month and eleven days of his second term before being shot and killed while attending a theatre performance. His assassin, John Wilkes Booth, was a strong supporter of the Confederacy.

Lincoln is one of the most popular presidents in American history, consistently ranked in the top three alongside George Washington and Franklin D Roosevelt. His greatest achievements are seen as ending the Civil War, abolishing s-lavery and developing the economy.

Ironically, his wife Mary came from a wealthy s-lave owning family in Lexington, Kentucky. Several of her half- brothers died serving in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.

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By (user no longer on site) OP     over a year ago


"On this day 1809 Shrewsbury's Charles Darwin was born.

Shrewsbury remembers Charles Darwin, fuckin' everywhere.

Awwwwww I love ol' Charlie. Him and his Beagle "

I love Charlie too.

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By *inky_couple2020Couple  over a year ago

North West

Jim, I'm off to bed now. Thank you for the history lesson

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By (user no longer on site) OP     over a year ago


"Hi all. Just doing some late night polite perving."

Good eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevening, Dick. You bloody pervert.

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By (user no longer on site) OP     over a year ago


"Jim, I'm off to bed now. Thank you for the history lesson "

You're welcome, na night.

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By (user no longer on site) OP     over a year ago

On this day 1994 The Scream by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch (1893 pastel version) was stolen in Oslo.

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By *ildbillkidMan  over a year ago

where the road goes on forever

Howdy ya'll, public service announcement don't do snow angels in a dog park, up there with , don't eat yellow snow

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By (user no longer on site) OP     over a year ago

On this day 2021 Tokyo Olympics Chief Yoshiro Mori resigned after his comment that talkative women made meetings “drag on too long”.

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By (user no longer on site) OP     over a year ago


"Howdy ya'll, public service announcement don't do snow angels in a dog park, up there with , don't eat yellow snow"

Good eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevening and howdy, Bill. Thank you very much.

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By *ildbillkidMan  over a year ago

where the road goes on forever


"Howdy ya'll, public service announcement don't do snow angels in a dog park, up there with , don't eat yellow snow

Good eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevening and howdy, Bill. Thank you very much."

information needed to be out there

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By (user no longer on site) OP     over a year ago


"Howdy ya'll, public service announcement don't do snow angels in a dog park, up there with , don't eat yellow snow

Good eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevening and howdy, Bill. Thank you very much. information needed to be out there"

Absolutely, I'm all about the health and safety.

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By (user no longer on site) OP     over a year ago

https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/local-hubs/shrewsbury/2022/02/11/charles-darwin-up-in-lights-in-stunning-shrewsbury-display/

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By *ildbillkidMan  over a year ago

where the road goes on forever

Jim, do u.k. websites use biscuits instead of cookies?

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By (user no longer on site) OP     over a year ago


"Jim, do u.k. websites use biscuits instead of cookies?"

Haha, our British United Kingdom websites have cookies.

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By *hunderace...Man  over a year ago

Dudley


"On this day 1809 Abraham Lincoln was born.

At 6ft 4in (193cm) Lincoln remains the tallest of America’s 46 presidents. He also stands as one of the highest in esteem, according to polls of historians, politicians and the general public.

Another noted physical feature was Lincoln’s beard. He was the first president to have one, and he can thank an 11 year old girl for that distinction.

Grace Bedell of Westfield, New York, sent a letter to Lincoln in 1860, just before the presidential election, urging him to improve his appearance by growing a beard. Her letter read:

Oct 15. 1860

Hon A B Lincoln

Dear Sir

My father has just home from the fair and brought home your picture. . . I am a little girl only eleven years old, but want you should be President of the United States very much so I hope you wont think me very bold to write to such a great man as you are. . . I have got 4 brother's and part of them will vote for you any way and if you will let your whiskers grow I will try and get the rest of them to vote for you you would look a great deal better for your face is so thin. All the ladies like whiskers and they would tease their husband's to vote for you and then you would be President. My father is a going to vote for you and if I was a man I would vote for you to but I will try and get every one to vote for you that I can. . . I must not write any more answer this letter right off

Good bye

Grace Bedell

Lincoln took Grace’s advice, won the election, and thanked her in person when his train stopped at Westfield on February the 16th, 1861 on his way to Washington.

The New York World reported:

On reaching [Westfield, Mr Lincoln] said that if that young lady was in the crowd he should be glad to see her. There was a momentary commotion, in the midst of which an old man, struggling through the crowd, approached, leading his daughter . . . whom he introduced to Mr. Lincoln as his Westfield correspondent. Mr. Lincoln stooped down and kissed the child, and talked with her for some minutes.

Her advice had not been thrown away upon the rugged chieftain. A beard of several months growth covers (perhaps adorns) the lower part of his face. The young girl's peachy cheek must have been tickled with a stiff whisker, for the growth of which she was herself responsible.

Abraham Lincoln was born into poverty in a one room log cabin near Hodgenville, Kentucky. His father, Thomas, a poor pioneer, was a farmer and carpenter, and his mother, Nancy, was a seamstress.

Lincoln spent much of his youth working as a farmhand, but later became a merchant, a postmaster, a county surveyor and a lawyer, although he had no formal qualifications for any of these posts. He was largely self-educated and his total schooling, given to him by travelling teachers, is estimated to total only around one year.

But he was always a voracious reader and when he decided to become a lawyer he simply taught himself the law, then set up in practice in Springfield, Illinois, admitting later: "I studied with nobody.”

He sat in the Illinois state legislature from 1834 to 1842 and in 1846 was elected to Congress as a member of the Whig Party. In 1856, Lincoln joined the new Republican Party which had been formed two years earlier and in 1860 he was asked to run as their presidential candidate.

Lincoln won with 180 out of 303 electoral votes but less than 40 per cent of the popular vote. Only one president in US history has done worse than that – John Quincy Adams in 1824, when he mustered a mere 31 per cent of the popular vote.

Lincoln was particularly unpopular in the South where it was (rightly) feared that he would attempt to abolish s-lavery, and before the new president took office seven southern states left the Union to form the Confederate States of America, also known as the Confederacy. Four more joined later.

Describing their ideology, Confederate Vice-President Alexander H Stephens said it was based “upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that s-lavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition”.

This ran counter to everything that Lincoln believed, and as many Unionists saw leaders of the breakaway states as traitors, civil war seemed inevitable.

Fighting began on April the 12th, 1861, when Confederate soldiers attacked the Union’s Fort Sumter at Charleston, South Carolina. The war continued for four years and cost the lives of between 620,000 and 850,000 men. On April the 9th, 1865, Confederate general Robert E Lee surrendered, effectively ending the war.

While it raged, President Lincoln insisted that his “paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy s-lavery”. Nevertheless, he issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, which declared that as of January the 1st, 1863, all ens-laved people in the states currently engaged in rebellion against the Union “shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.”

He delivered the famous Gettysburg Address later that year calling for “government of the people, by the people, for the people”. Months later he stood for re-election and won. In his second inaugural address he was, typically, conciliatory towards the southern states. The address ended:

“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.”

But Lincoln got to serve only one month and eleven days of his second term before being shot and killed while attending a theatre performance. His assassin, John Wilkes Booth, was a strong supporter of the Confederacy.

Lincoln is one of the most popular presidents in American history, consistently ranked in the top three alongside George Washington and Franklin D Roosevelt. His greatest achievements are seen as ending the Civil War, abolishing s-lavery and developing the economy.

Ironically, his wife Mary came from a wealthy s-lave owning family in Lexington, Kentucky. Several of her half- brothers died serving in the Confederate Army during the Civil War."

The Gettysburg address speech was only 275 words long and only took less than 2 minutes to deliver.

Not a lot of people know that...

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By (user no longer on site) OP     over a year ago

Getty him. ^

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By *eroLondonMan  over a year ago

Covent Garden


"Unfortunately M don't aren't on the Spotify, which is a shame. So I'm going to put the Eagles on. "

Seriously cannot believe "M" aren't on 'Spotifications'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_Muzik?wprov=sfla1

It's "Pop Muzik" by "M".

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