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JoeLeg

JoeLeg

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malumbu Wrote:

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> Sue, I am sure that can find conspiracy sites

> where the UK is bending over backwards to

> accommodate Russian interests too. Which we are.



Go on then. Not sure what it has to do with Trump though?

JohnL

JohnL

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JoeLeg Wrote:

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> malumbu Wrote:

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> > Sue, I am sure that can find conspiracy sites

> > where the UK is bending over backwards to

> > accommodate Russian interests too. Which we

> are.

>

>

> Go on then. Not sure what it has to do with Trump

> though?


I give you Owen Jones :)


https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/12/tory-links-russia-saudi-links-corbyn-spy-extremism


But it's nothing to do with Trump except the perhaps same Russian people trying to control Western interests.

Sue

Sue

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malumbu Wrote:

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> Sue, I am sure that can find conspiracy sites

> where the UK is bending over backwards to

> accommodate Russian interests too. Which we are.



That isn't the point, is it?


And to the best of my knowledge the site I linked to is not a "conspiracy site."

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JoeLeg

JoeLeg

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ExtremeEntertainment Wrote:

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> you wont get much of an opinion oh here there

> mostly libraels or feminists. and we all know

> there trump haters.



If you?re going to be annoyed at people who disagree with you at least be original about it...yawn...


By the way, huge tranches of the American right-wing (hardly bastions of liberalism - awhaywver you think that is - or feminism) really hate Trump. But then that doesn?t chime with your world-view so you just dismiss anything you don?t like as lies.

rendelharris

rendelharris

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ExtremeEntertainment Wrote:

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> you wont get much of an opinion oh here there

> mostly libraels or feminists. and we all know

> there trump haters.


Nine grammatical and spelling errors in eighteen words, hats off to you!

Sue

Sue

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JohnL Wrote:

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> Meanwhile most important news of the day ..

>

> "US President Donald Trump has faced ridicule

> online after he was filmed boarding Air Force One

> with what appears to be a length of toilet tissue

> attached to his shoe."



Well, appropriate, as he is a shit.

JohnL

JohnL

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rendelharris Wrote:

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> JoeLeg Wrote:

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> > I only count eight, but your point stands.

>

> Did you count beginning a sentence with a

> conjunction?



I thought of that one - but Jerusalem :)

JoeLeg

JoeLeg

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rendelharris Wrote:

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> JoeLeg Wrote:

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> > I only count eight, but your point stands.

>

> Did you count beginning a sentence with a

> conjunction?


Ah. Indeed. My old GCSE English teacher would be howling at me now.


(The A Level teachers wouldn?t have cared at all!)

keano77

keano77

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rendelharris Wrote:

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> JoeLeg Wrote:

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> > I only count eight, but your point stands.

>

> Did you count beginning a sentence with a

> conjunction?



It can be perfectly acceptable to start a sentence with the conjunction ?and? these days despite what I was taught at school. My bugbear is the current trend for many people being interviewed to start their answer to a question with the stabiliser ?so?.

rendelharris

rendelharris

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keano77 Wrote:

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> rendelharris Wrote:

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> > JoeLeg Wrote:

> >

> --------------------------------------------------

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> > -----

> > > I only count eight, but your point stands.

> >

> > Did you count beginning a sentence with a

> > conjunction?

>

>

> It can be perfectly acceptable to start a sentence

> with the conjunction ?and? these days despite what

> I was taught at school. My bugbear is the current

> trend for many people being interviewed to start

> their answer to a question with the stabiliser

> ?so?.


Correction, some people think it's acceptable to start a sentence with a conjunction. It has become accepted through frequent (mis)use - just as starting an answer with "so" will doubtless become, will you then regard it as acceptable once it has become normalised?

JohnL

JohnL

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Would you buy a chlorinated chicken off this man ?


"Donald Trump has said he believes Russian leader Vladimir Putin is ?probably? behind a recent spate of poisonings and assassinations ? but appeared to suggest they were not relevant because they did not happen in the US."

Sue

Sue

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keano77 Wrote:

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> >

> > Did you count beginning a sentence with a

> > conjunction?

>

>

> It can be perfectly acceptable to start a sentence

> with the conjunction ?and? these days despite what

> I was taught at school. My bugbear is the current

> trend for many people being interviewed to start

> their answer to a question with the stabiliser

> ?so?.



Language changes, otherwise we'd all still be speaking and writing like Chaucer (assuming he spoke like he wrote :)) ) or in fact, going back to the mists of time, just sort of burbling :))

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