Oh God! U.S. Strategic? Cruise Missile Strike on North Korea!!!

Having only just seen the Argentinian winning goal from last night, I can only say; "Oh My Word".


Fritz von Fredders your mates will be proud! the German hero of two goals last evening against Sweden was born in er, Poland, innit*

I was well miffed (as were my neighours too no doubt!) to get a totally off the cuff letter from our new house owners the other evening (per hand) politely 'asking us to completely clear our cellars and attics out (within 3 weeks) so renovation & modernistaion work can begin. Just been in my jobby (first time in years) 120 years old at least, no leckrick nuffink (plenty of coal dust though & spiders). Got my old Dutch bike up to my flat, now have to lose about a ton of old wood and an old fridge & oven (recycling here, all costs dosh). I do love the timing and short notice of these folk, if they have to clear it, one get's a bill naturally. New windows coming soon, and central heating (at last in september), just think I'll be able to post on here next winter in me t-shirt, listening to Spring by Viv**

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Originally posted by Gazzer:
With that the man turned on me and spouted a torrent of abuse "we f**king hate you, you English b***rds, why don't you f**k off back where you came from" etc etc.

There are arseholes on both sides of the border unfortunately. At present it would appear quite a few of the English ones are in Germany going by the number of them getting arrested so far this weekend.

It'll be most interesting (though highly unlikely) if the News Channel of the Year, etc, decided to mention the professions of some of these nicked, pissed individuals, bearing in mind the high cost of their football jaunts. From lawyers to off-dury er, coppers etc (rarely military these days) as seen by the Euorpean cup on a recent tourno.



Fritz von I bet if any of them were/are asylum seekers, unemployed Polish plumbers in England tricots, Gay Scottish foster parents, Muslims or non Masons we's soon hear about it big-style make no mistook*

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Originally posted by Nigel Cavendish:

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Originally posted by Tarquin Maynard-Portly:
I do it to give the really small-minded the opportunity to make themselves look dumb.

Why?

Probably when they're innocently and unknowingly signing up to some Mickey Mouse 'unqualified IFA' scheme that'll put them out of pocket in the long run.


Fritz von It shouldn't be allowed, but it is*

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Berlin Fritz:

Fritz von Fredders your mates will be proud! the German hero of two goals last evening against Sweden was born in er, Poland, innit*QUOTE]

Dear Fritz,

I knew that one of the German team was Polish born. I don't know who, as I have not followed footie for a very long time, but I was told this! But it is good, the gradual growing together of peoples after such a terrible history isn't it? I think so.

I was supposed to be looking at a new flat in Worcester, and very close to work (and some nice pubs too) yesterday or today, but it will be tomorrow now at about lunchtime, before work.

It is too expensive, but less than my current rent and petrol to get to work, so I will end up marginally better off. The whole thing is stressful. I read about your having to clear out the loft and cellar. What can you do when someone else owns the building? It is a nuisance.

My place (if I get it) is first floor, which is good as I hate sleeping at pavement level. You can't have the windows open at night, and somehow people walking past the window removes the possibility to relax.

I shall miss Hereford, as it is my town, being born here, and where we used to do the shopping on a Friday in the olden days. But if there are no jobs here, then what can I do? I had a job here when I moved from Worcester over 12 months ago, but he was a crook and was not paying me, according to the agreement. So I returned to my old job, when they got desperate enough to ask me to go back!

If this had never happened, then I guess I might have only got to know one Pole well, and he was a rather unpleasant character from work about 15 years ago. He got deported, as he was an illegal imigrant and got caught speeding and was arrested. He was back in Poland next day. So till I met all my new work collegues I had never had much of a good impression of the Polish at all! How wrong was that first impression!

Wish me luck with the new gaff! Fredrik

Fredrik

You should most certainly go for the new place and just get on with it. Of course there will be problems but they will only be short term.

You will be buying up your new place brick by brick week after week and it will be yours and no one elses.

So bugger the stress, just bloody get stuck in.

Regards

Mick

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Originally posted by Mick Parry:
Fredrik

[...].

You will be buying up your new place brick by brick week after week and it will be yours and no one elses.

So bugger the stress, just bloody get stuck in.

Regards

Mick

Dear Mick,

I know you are exactly right. What I should have said is that the rent is too high! I wish I could afford to buy. I would do it tomorrow if...

The big bug-bear for me was that Chancelor Brown announced two Budgets ago that Private Pension Pots would be investable in property, and other sensible long term things. Better in my view for the small investor than stocks and shares, as one cannot earn it as fast as a market fall demolishes it, whereas bricks and mortar remain just exactly that, what ever the paper value. Unfortunately for me, talking to the National Farmers Union head office in Stratford [where my Pension is] about a month ago revealed to me that these propositions made by Brown had quietly been dropped, and the media has not picked up on this yet. With my little fund, I could easily have put a one third deposit down on a flat, and been sitting pretty.

As it is I must watch housing again slip out of reach, while I watch in constenation as my little fund veers from growth to colapse with alarming speed! Aaagh! It is all too frustrating. This bloody government is neither the friend of capital or the working man, but just Tony's Cronies, I am afraid. What a shambles!

Thanks from the thought Mick, and sorry Fritz for a deviation from your Thread!

All the best from Fredrik

Fredders, I personally would be making my way to Norway (not talking about it but doing it). Our Mick's never taken a risk in his life (with his own money) going by posts on here, and if you're comfortable paying plenty of interest for the next few years, as well as losing your freedom of movement naturally; which I suppose you will do (unless you've saved enough to pay it off sooner and a 80% mortgage to-boot).


Fritz von Maybe some kind member on here could give you some sound financial advice?

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Pretty poor performance - only one good shot...

England didn't do so much better either John, innit*

Dear Fritz,

You are right as well. There is nothing here in UK for me now really, except twenty-five years of working for peanuts, and then impoverished old age.

I am sending my Aunt an email later, and shall say no more! You are right about that as well...

In the short run, I still have to take this flat, unless it is totally unsuitable.

Kindest thoughts from Fredrik

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Originally posted by Fredrik_Fiske:
Dear Fritz,

You are right as well. There is nothing here in UK for me now really, except twenty-five years, of working for peanuts, and then impoverished old age.

I am sending my Aunt an email later, and shall say no more! You are right about that as well...

In the short run, I still have to take this flat, unless it is totally unsuitable.

Kindest thoughts from Fredrik

Nearer and cheaper must be OK Fredders, now that you seem to be going out for a pint now and again (plus ciggies naturally). Unlike Our Mick who boasts of regular restaurants and malt with his er, 'friends' on here, like you, I must also pay my own way 'unconditionally' , which in the long run is a far far more betterer position to be in.



Fritz von Unconditional scenario's are always the best (and the most professional too strangely enough), because unlike Our Mick's (and many others too) 'ethos' of 'Who you know', when the going gets really tough, it's down to 'What you know Old Son, innit'*


Regards,

That's why I like the non-rounds system here, one is beholden to nobody*

Dear Fritz,

Beholden to no one is the best way I know! I have never borrowed anything money-wise except against a saleable asset, like when I finished paying for my commissioned bass, but otherwise nothing. Though as poor as a church mouse, I have no debts at all.

The whole business of rounds is tedious for sure. It is fine with a friend, where it simply alternates, and if one is penniles then the other picks the tab up for that very evening, but it reverses on another occasion. Big rounds in the company of many, only half of whom do I know, are hopeless if you are like me. I cannot keep up, so I end up subsidizing the event, because I nod off after about four pints! Maybe it is because I is a leetle guy! At least I am not too heavy to carry! A rare event I should add, for those who don't know me at all.

Fredrik [Smiley]!

When Mao's er, 'Cultural Revolution' began in 1966, and finished ten years later after his death, officially questioning the action was later encouraged by the follow up government. Roughly 70 million died during that (Peacetime period) 38 Million of overwork and hunger alone, as he sent most of the food to the USSR to buy arms and nuclear technology with. Today his body still lies in State, and his portrait adorns Peking/Bejing Squares in loving 'Official' memory.



Fritz von I wonder if Stalin, Cpt Carpetchewer, etc, etc, would still be so revered if they'd done the same?

Nice to see Our Mick back on the old pink salmon show, always knew he was a man of principle, he'll be starting a Thatcher thread just below the guitar tutoring thread on his own website soon, I bet*

Fathers/Parents for Justice!



Fritz von Now there's some real Patriots², innit*

I wonder how somebody can 'work' for a fully publically Nationalized firm for most of their life, retire early on a mega pension (also totally publically subsidized to the hilt (even in mega deficit) (unlike in the private sector) carry on working as a er highly paid part time, 'con-sultant' based on the experience and contacts all that 'Public' money had previously afforded & graced him (unlike in the Private sector where 'ONLY' performance counts, then have the absolute Gaul to have a go at under paid slaves (many doing 3 jobs, through no Union protection) and those on the streets, many who (unlike him) have faught for their country (recently) and been chucked on the rubbish heap afterwards, in today's caring Britain*


Fritz von Not too mention boasting about giving to charity, then sodding off to sunny Spain (English Sector) when the going gets tough (financially), maybe he should enter the Hoose?


Fredders, if you listen to this man's nonsense, God help you, he's a social loser², whereas I feel you could well be a man of integrity (which in the real world is priceless John)*

I thought it was quite fitting for the thread, as some folk might be interested in knowing a bit of history?


The Korean War started out being between North Korea and South Korea. After World War II, Korea was hurriedly divided for administrative purposes at the 38th parallel. Almost immediately, the Soviets began a short-lived reign of terror in northern Korea that quickly politicised the division by driving thousands of refugees south. An independent South Korea became UN policy in early 1948 and southern communists opposed this, so warfare began in parts of every Korean province below the 38th parallel. The war became international in June 1950 when North Korea, supplied and advised by the Soviets, invaded South Korea. The United Nations, with the United States as the principal participant, joined the war on the side of the South Koreans, and the People's Republic of China came to North Korea's aid. In 1953, Joseph Stalin died, and within weeks the Politburo of the Soviet Communist Party voted that the war in Korea should be ended. After more than a million combat casualties on both sides, the fighting ended in July 1953 with Korea still divided into two hostile states.

Beano