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   Message 98,675 of 99,776   
   Charles Ellson to ThePhantomPiper@comcast.net   
   Re: Aberdeen   
   07 Mar 18 07:28:19   
   
   From: ce11son@yahoo.ca   
      
   On Tue, 6 Mar 2018 21:27:08 -0800 (PST), The Phantom Piper   
    wrote:   
      
   >On Monday, March 5, 2018 at 2:14:07 AM UTC-8, Adam Whyte-Settlar wrote:   
   >>   
   >> It's such a shame. The UK in the sixties - and even seventies - was   
   >> still one of the best places to live in the world. Alive and optimistic.   
   >> Now it just seems sad and litter strewn and hopeless.   
   >   
   >It all went to shite when the country suffered   
   >Slime Minister Thatcher to augment Elizardbeast's   
   >evil with Policy.  Granted, the unions had gone   
   >a bit overboard, as they can do - but my God, the   
   >sheeple traded the hob for Hobb's End!   
   >   
   >> I had planned to move back to Scotland if we got independence - and   
   >> what do we get - Brexshit.  I still visit - and wonder at the soft   
   >> light - but I can't see any reason to return now.   
   >   
   >Well I bloody well can, living in Nova Roma as I do!   
   >El Presidente is unlikely to nuke Scotland as he owns   
   >two golf courses there.  Unfortunately I have things   
   >tethering me here, but I might have to scamper to avoid   
   >the Nookewlur War With Canada.   
   >   
   >> On the bright side I'm doing great down here. Got my   
   >> own property renovation business with a good team of   
   >> six guys and a woman working for me.   
   >   
   >Well you've managed to get *that* backwards!   
   >Shouldn't that be Seven Virgins And A Mule?   
   >(Keep it cool - keep it cool...)   
   >   
   >> Took me a couple of years to build it up from nothing again.   
   >   
   >Och, you'll be fine: you are a Survivor.   
   >   
   >> Hope you and any of the old gang who might stumble on this   
   >> post are doing well.   
   >   
   >Like all those Greeks In Rome, I have a   
   >front row seat to the Decline And Fall of   
   >the Modern Empire Of The Moment.  Unlike   
   >them, we now have nuclear weapons in the   
   >hands of Emperor Batshite.  Interesting   
   >times indeed.   
   >   
   >> I don't use Facebook - not my style either.   
   >> I won't use any medium that is censored so   
   >> I'm kind of limited now.   
   >   
   >It's not the Censorship, it's the Collusion.   
   >   
   >> All the best.   
   >   
   >Yah, same to you!   
   >   
   >   
   >Ordering More Popcorn,   
   >   
      
   Greetings PP before I forget.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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