General Chat

yes but the UDF has no capacity for barrel bombs while on video beheadings are going a bit far even for Armagh bombers.

There are two issues,

one, are there elements of the Sinn Fein still going in for a take down ( of course say the proddies only the taigs would do this)

and two the assorted Osbourne social cuts deprive NI of funding for what is supposed to be a devolved issue. Nicola Sturgeon is watching carefully. I suspect that in the end Osbourne will wish he had not done this.

but it is all ripples in a pond compared to Syria.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cx2IUcLt050

Anyone keeping an eye on the brewing NI political troubles?

Just another thorn to aggravate us. :-S

The options now are

(a) praise god and pass the ammunition

(b) ask for an emergency UN resolution

(c) use the UK security apparatus to carry out ex judicial state executions at a cost of a hundred thousand pounds per missile - has no useful effect but mein gott it sure has great feel good factor

(d) pass the buck

I don't think (a) is very far up the agenda.

Oh dear! Bottom line, it's just awful, whatever way you look or feel, and I can't begin to imagine what the outcome will be. Syria isn't going to be anything even approaching 'safe' for way into the distant future, so what anyone can do to alter that is ??????
We saw film on the news last night of a tiny boy who had 45% burns after his house had been demolished by an Assad bomb, killing his mother, sisters and grandmother. His father wasn't at home, so at least this poor poor child had some comfort. But hearing him cry was appalling. In the same news we heard, and saw two Afghan soldiers in orange suits sitting in a building waiting for IS to blow them to kingdom come! which of course they did! What in God's name do you do?!

:-( Rose

Supercrutch, I have just looked at the photos on your page.

and my second thought, was that there will sadly be people who look who don't 'get it' even then.

There are many photos of the dead who won't be lining up for anything will they?

yes supercrutch really ... some seem to think people are risking their lives and their children's lives for a chance at a council house ...

I have just added a lot of photos of the war and it's consequences on my FB page. Some people won't look :-( but those that do will have a better understanding of what this awful conflict means in human terms.

Well I saved some of the thread and don't see any reason for GR to have lifted it although a couple of posts were in pretty poor taste. Guess we'll have to go back to knitting.

The issues won't go away - the Assad regime is not very far from collapse. As I previously posted the main road from Aleppo to Damascus is only 10 miles from the guns of the De'esh and the regime's last outpost in Idlib province (next to Turkey) fell last night. That is why the Russian want to reinforce Latakia.

If the Nusra Front and the De'esh bring about the fall of Damascus then the outcome will be a tragedy of biblical proportions. No wonder Merkel is talking of 800 000 refugees this year and half a million each of the next two or three.

This is the result of the west's reluctance to get its finger out and do something easy when it had the chance. Now it has nightmare.

Nearly all of the family of my OH mother died in concentration camps. History has hard lessons which too many people prefer to ignore.

:-D I hope no cattle roost in any trees near me!!! :-D

whoever RRed my post can keep doing it til the cattle come home to roost

if I see prejudice, and I saw it in that thread, I will say so

actually I saw somebody proposing a war crime in that thread, I just didn't bother pointing it out ... maybe next time I will ...

Yet another RR!! What's the matter this time? Apart from the dodgy grammar the whole thing sounds very fishy to me! Why on earth pull the whole thread? Why the OP? (There wasn't anything even remotely offensive about it!) There was no bad language, well, not that I recognised, yes, there were one or two spats, but compared to another well know board, these were as nothing! Perhaps it's just that Genes doesn't welcome thought provoking discussions, and as I've said, stick to trivia and you'll be ok.

Well if someone was offended or was offended on behalf of somebody else regarding a post then just RR that particular post!

The majority of posters on that thread were all more than capable of challenging something themselves in real time!

It probably was somebody who didn't post Rose, and who only saw what they wanted to before reporting. I suppose it is too much to think that GR could have just removed the offensinve posts and left the rest. I can't see that Ann's OP was offensive in any way. To my mind somebody was, in fact, reporting the thread not the post. Still we all learnt a lot and really had exhausted allw e wanted to say at the time so no problem really, only aggravation.

personal nature perhaps rather than "personal matter" ?

But it begs the question if the reporter found the tone of some posts offensive or too personal, why didn't they just report those individual posts and leave Ann's OP intact?

It could though be someone who did not post ( is not able to) who objected. So it would not be fair to conclude it was a current paying member.

Is the English language going to pot? Language should not stand between the writer & the reader. :-S

So we have a sensitive souls among us

AWW Bless :-( :-(

From memory , there were only 3 people who had a 'set to'. They all said they didn't Report.

Oh well - the mangement's descision is final.

"there was also reports from users who had posted comments which were then replied to that were of a personal manner."

Besides this being appalling grammar, I interpret it as that somebody actually on the thread took offence to something that was said to them from somebody else on the thread. Or is it so grammatically incorrect that they mean something else entirely. So.... you at least got a reason Ann, even if we can't quite interpret what it means. :-D