gotcha. I’ll apply the ole Barry Method in response to these chastisements & warranted attacks. I’ll mention the EU, call someone a Tory, and use the word Snide as if it was a verb.
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Think I’m going to leave it here, the last 8 pages have become just as boring as you’d expect a thread with Barry prominent on every page to be and I don’t want to spoil it any further with our sniping.
A verb I thought I was saying herb, nevermind, I’ll leave the onemanship and hilarious spelling gags to you, I remember that time you corrected that lady in Singapore concerning her grammar (syntax I think) and she left handed you a goodun, you were knocked out for 3 weeks and your left eye could look around corners after that, did you get it corrected?
I’ve got no idea what ur on about tbh. What singapore lady? When was this?
That lady who teaches you humour and one liners and in return you teach her grammar (syntax), she got a bit fiery after you corrected her, I am sure it was you, maybe it was Steve from No 6.
The bit where someone got annoyed and Told Me Off, sounds like me, the bit where I’m randomly going around correcting ppl on their grammar & syntax, does not. I suspect ur Confused.
Sorry must have been Steve from No 6.
Originally posted by @Barry-Sanchez
Originally posted by @Bearsy
The bit where someone got annoyed and Told Me Off, sounds like me, the bit where I’m randomly going around correcting ppl on their grammar & syntax, does not. I suspect ur Confused.
Sorry.
Better late than never.
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There is an awful lot of creative editing today.
I think you’ll find its called ‘snidey’.
Yes in the context you did it it was but there we go you live and learn and its all water under the bridge now.
Bear plse get out of Barry’s arse (credit bad 2016) and reduce his banter rating to 7 - evidence above.
Originally posted by @Coxford_lou
Interesting post, Phil. I always enjoy your input on this topic and you have a different perspective living in the ME. I’ll spend a bit of time reading those blog.
Only one question - who is this PC brigade that would be offended by the idea that there are large functioning parts of Syria at the moment. I assume most people are aware of the split across the country at the moment - we’ve seen enough maps that demonstrate this. Even in the film footage I’ve seen in the worst hit parts of the country, there is an attempt to carry on life as best they can - school, markets etc. Shame or cowering isn’t the impression we’ve had in the slightest in the West. Unless anyone else see this differently?
Also, who is Damascus Saint and why isn’t he on here?
By PC Brigade, in the context I mentioned it I was mainly inferring Western News Media (or Propaganda Providers)
Madaya (which I have been to once in a different world) is a nightmare situation, but then so, a couple of years ago was Alleppo where many many more people suffered similar depravations (including a good friend of mine forced to live in a cellar for 6 months and dodging sniper bullets and bombs - who now lives & works in Ankara), but back then it wasn’t quite the same “news”.
But my point is the fact that we haven’t seen the functioning parts of Syria. FFS even the “Middle East’s #1Topless Bar” with the Russian Dancing girls is still open in Damascus. (Actually, tbf it is the ME’s ONLY Topless Bar)
We have not seen on TV that a large swathe of Damascus is work, education, and trade as usual. You don’t hear that due to sanctions, the cost of a bottle of Johnny Walker Red Label has HALVED in the past 2 years. The issue is that you aren’t being shown that, someone has determined to only show the bad news, imho it must fit some kind of agenda. (In a similar way, parts of Yemen are now beginning to return to a normality of the level when they had their first civil war but we are not seeing that on TV just occassional glimpses of that through local papers.
The images of Madaya were by and large pushing an agenda, clearly it worked, probably it pushed Putin to give Bashar a call and let the Aid Convoy in and Thank God that it worked , there are now just another 400,000 or so across the country who need help & aid just as urgently.
Damascus Saint is our 'pet refugee". Obviously it’s the trendy thing to have these days
(We only use that label to wind him up)
In seriousness he was a customer I first met in Damascus back in about 1997, who became a great friend, I’ve often told the tales of him scaring me to death in his car as we hurtled from one hotel to another (back in the day) to try and find a TV showing a Saints game - we made the Sheraton change their Dish Alignment one year, sat in the Lobby Bar with about 50 hotel guests and watched Saints get hammered 4-0 in the Roy Keane FA Cup game. Oh the shame…
He came to SMS with me for THAT 3-3 Villa game, and is the proud owner of a SFC Polo Shirt and (used) to have his Saints Shirt on the wall in his office in Damascus before (after pressure from me) he relocated here with his family in 2010. He’s never gonna be a blogger but he sure knows who Rupert, 'Arry, SRL. Morgan and Mane were (are) he gets down Barasti occassionally along with Bashar & his brother their Dad is a Saudi who went to Language school in Southampton fell in love and married a local girl and the guys were sent to Uni there and are also members of the “Dubai massive”
So yeah, I get updates.
Thanks Phil. Interesting viewpoint.
But isn’t that the perspective of someone who is rightly proud of their country and upset by the negative press it’s getting throughout the world. Rather than someone looking at the situation with a bit more distance and being appalled?
I don’t understand your accusation of propaganda - are you saying these things aren’t happening? Or are you saying they’re over emphasising them? Surely if situations like this have happened before and have been under reported, then it’s a good thing they are now being captured? It’s not like the numbers are dramatic enough to warrant it?
I’m not sure I’m understanding the subtext to your post.
Damascus Saint sounds brilliant!
Originally posted by @Coxford_lou
Originally posted by @Bearsy
Originally posted by @Coxford_lou
It’s the word “rape” Bear. Same as the word “cancer” it just means and represents more (probably to women) than just the 4 letters. I know you like pushing boundaries on things, but I can’t stand seeing that word used as a joke. Or used to win a point. Or whatever. Probably because, most girls/women from the age of 13 onwards, get taught to fear the life out of it.
yeah i know. That last sentence resonates with me. I mean, I know I’m Dude and it’s Different, but I feel like getting raped is way down the list of Bad Things That Could Happen To Me. If I was on a date with a Syrian Bro and he said, either ur getting raped, or I’m stealing ur iPhones, I’d prob take the bumming. I mean, I would’ve done when I had iPhones, now I’ve only got Samsung Galaxy, so I’d be like, take the fkin phone, but you Know What I Mean.
Edit: soz that sounds like rape jokes again! I was trying to be srs honest! I can’t help it!
Whatevs, Bear.
Whatevs, Bear.Anyway, it’s not rape, it’s surprise sex, and everyone loves a surprise…
I do know the Swedish police purrposely undereported it,
Its a cultural sensisitvity issue, it has been before and they are saying it now, you can not say anything for fear of being called a racist.
Relevant debate is being shut down because of it, the victims are not being heard or being heard too late.
Originally posted by @Dubai_Phil
Originally posted by @Coxford_lou
Interesting post, Phil. I always enjoy your input on this topic and you have a different perspective living in the ME. I’ll spend a bit of time reading those blog.
Only one question - who is this PC brigade that would be offended by the idea that there are large functioning parts of Syria at the moment. I assume most people are aware of the split across the country at the moment - we’ve seen enough maps that demonstrate this. Even in the film footage I’ve seen in the worst hit parts of the country, there is an attempt to carry on life as best they can - school, markets etc. Shame or cowering isn’t the impression we’ve had in the slightest in the West. Unless anyone else see this differently?
Also, who is Damascus Saint and why isn’t he on here?
By PC Brigade, in the context I mentioned it I was mainly inferring Western News Media (or Propaganda Providers)
Madaya (which I have been to once in a different world) is a nightmare situation, but then so, a couple of years ago was Alleppo where many many more people suffered similar depravations (including a good friend of mine forced to live in a cellar for 6 months and dodging sniper bullets and bombs - who now lives & works in Ankara), but back then it wasn’t quite the same “news”.
But my point is the fact that we haven’t seen the functioning parts of Syria. FFS even the “Middle East’s #1Topless Bar” with the Russian Dancing girls is still open in Damascus. (Actually, tbf it is the ME’s ONLY Topless Bar)
We have not seen on TV that a large swathe of Damascus is work, education, and trade as usual. You don’t hear that due to sanctions, the cost of a bottle of Johnny Walker Red Label has HALVED in the past 2 years. The issue is that you aren’t being shown that, someone has determined to only show the bad news, imho it must fit some kind of agenda. (In a similar way, parts of Yemen are now beginning to return to a normality of the level when they had their first civil war but we are not seeing that on TV just occassional glimpses of that through local papers.
The images of Madaya were by and large pushing an agenda, clearly it worked, probably it pushed Putin to give Bashar a call and let the Aid Convoy in and Thank God that it worked , there are now just another 400,000 or so across the country who need help & aid just as urgently.
Damascus Saint is our 'pet refugee". Obviously it’s the trendy thing to have these days
In seriousness he was a customer I first met in Damascus back in about 1997, who became a great friend, I’ve often told the tales of him scaring me to death in his car as we hurtled from one hotel to another (back in the day) to try and find a TV showing a Saints game - we made the Sheraton change their Dish Alignment one year, sat in the Lobby Bar with about 50 hotel guests and watched Saints get hammered 4-0 in the Roy Keane FA Cup game. Oh the shame…
He came to SMS with me for THAT 3-3 Villa game, and is the proud owner of a SFC Polo Shirt and (used) to have his Saints Shirt on the wall in his office in Damascus before (after pressure from me) he relocated here with his family in 2010. He’s never gonna be a blogger but he sure knows who Rupert, 'Arry, SRL. Morgan and Mane were (are) he gets down Barasti occassionally along with Bashar & his brother their Dad is a Saudi who went to Language school in Southampton fell in love and married a local girl and the guys were sent to Uni there and are also members of the “Dubai massive”
So yeah, I get updates.
We see nothing of the Saudi bombing on Yemen here Phil, that is agenda driven the other way around, the war in Yemen is a forgotten war or even not known here.
I don’t disagree, Barry, although conversation with Phil was about media reporting on Syria.
Media not reporting on these attacks is outrageous, even though I can understand the fear of right wing racist reprisals.
You can’t report the truth for fear of a reprisal, that surely goes against the principle of free press, I hope D notices aren’t used by Government still today to keep the citizens in the dark about its own Nation.
I get that ppl might want “revenge”, but I hardly think Swedish Festival Girls going around randomly groping immigrants is going to help.