15 January 2018
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lurcher1948
/ 15th January 2018Donald POTUS#45 will never see this as hes on the back 9 playing todays game of golf…
/www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-international-hotel-dc-shithole_us_5a5ac62ee4b04f3c55a33624?section=us_politics
Corky
/ 15th January 2018Oh, I think he will get his own back, Lurchy. It’s just a simple strategy of letting liberals mouth off, then letting the more intelligent ones self reflect and turn on the others. Time makes the wine, son.
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2017/08/22/robert-de-niro-calls-trump-racist-were-at-crisis-in-this-country-with-this-fool.html
lurcher1948
/ 15th January 2018Darn,old man posting,doing it right this time
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-international-hotel-dc-shithole_us_5a5ac62ee4b04f3c55a33624?section=us_politics
Pickled Possum
/ 15th January 2018Hahahaha Now that is some pay back …
Trump for being a shithead that lives in a shit hole.
Pickled Possum
/ 15th January 2018The Ocean is dangerous at this time of year
Buy A Para Pool stay home and stay Safe
Who needs to leave home when you can Travel on google,
Travel, seeing iconic spots and travelling the No 1 Highway of Aotearoa
is never as good, as being safe and alive with your family, at home.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11975072
Kitty Catkin
/ 15th January 2018It’s not the same as seeing the real thing, though.Standing in the room that Shakespeare stayed in and used in Oxford, which still has the original painted walls (discovered behind something, I forget what) was 1,000,000 times better than any photo could be,
traveller
/ 15th January 2018I love my photos as the initial euphoric feeling of being there is soon forgotten. I’m one of those tragics who always has a camera
lurcher1948
/ 15th January 2018RED makes it into the big time ie a newspaper…
http://www2.nzherald.co.nz/wanganui-chronicle/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503426&objectid=11974935
Kitty Catkin
/ 15th January 2018Oh, well done, Red !!! Tell daddy to rub your ears and give you a big kiss for Auntie Kitty !
Another rescued dog showing what rescued dogs can do. It was a surprise that the brilliant dog in The Artist was also a rescue dog, like the ones who flew planes in the UK (thanks to Mark Vette) What fun it would be to see two dogs in pilots hats walking up the plane aisle and into the cockpit.
Kitty Catkin
/ 15th January 2018Does Red ever go to the Waikato agility events ?
lurcher1948
/ 15th January 2018Kitty i competed in Hamilton with ZAK an American cocker in the distant past,but now that i have finally retired might make the trek up there to compete.
Kitty Catkin
/ 15th January 2018One of the local ‘dog play pens’ as we called them has some old agilty things in it, which is great fun for the dogs to play on.
Mark Vette could teach Red to drive and share the driving with you.
Alan Wilkinson
/ 15th January 2018Vice looks like our Tinkerbell but less black in her brown. Hot weather for all that fur.
lurcher1948
/ 15th January 2018It was SO hot,the heat was radiating of the course
David
/ 15th January 2018I see Ardern has decided to dip her toe into a bit of work and starts with calling Trump a racists, this from the party that gave us the chinese sounding surname study and race baited throughout the campaign against foreigners which is labour code for anyone asian. Her immigration policy is further to the right than Trumps she just has a classier way of communicating and a sycophantic press.
robertguyton
/ 15th January 2018I bet she didn’t call Trump a racists!
Kitty Catkin
/ 15th January 2018This from the party that couldn’t tell Cornish, English, Irish and Romany names from Chinese ones 😀
Blazer
/ 15th January 2018yes every one knows Bruce Lee was…Romany.
Kitty Catkin
/ 15th January 2018Sighhhhh…..you mentioned him, not me. The names I mentioned were Sandra Lee (not Chinese) and Gipsy Rose Lee (also not Chinese)
No, Bruce Lee was not Romany-despite the European first name, he was Chinese. This time, a Lee actually was Chinese. 0/10.
Bruce Lee being Chinese doesn’t make all people with that name Chinese. Did you realise that China doesn’t use the same alphabet as we do, so that when you see the Chinese name Lee, it has been translated into an English form so that people in the West can read it ?
Blazer
/ 15th January 2018Li (Chinese: 李; pinyin: Lǐ) is the second most common surname in China, behind only Wang. … The name is pronounced as “Lei” in Cantonese, but is often spelled as Lee in Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and many other overseas Chinese communities.
Kitty Catkin
/ 15th January 2018One. More. Time. The fact that it is a Chinese name does not mean that it is ONLY a Chinese name.
Kitty Catkin
/ 15th January 2018It is also a Romany name-google this, if you can’t take my word for it. Many Romanies are called Lee-as are many, many non-Chinese people like
Brenda Lee
Christopher Lee
Laurie Lee
Peggy Lee
Robert E Lee
Harper Lee
I assume that you have heard of some of these people. I doubt if they all changed their names to Chines ones for some reason.
Take the name Smith. The original Smith who gave any one family the name could have been a blacksmith, a whitesmith, a tinsmith, a goldsmith, a silversmith, a coppersmith or a fingersmith. But because one smith was a goldsmith, it doesn’t mean that there was no other kind of smith !!!
Corky
/ 15th January 2018In fact Bruce Lee wasn’t a full blooded Chinese. He had English ancestry. The plot thickens.
Blazer
/ 15th January 2018I never ever said it is ONLY a Chinese name..you tried to be…clever…and you’re still…trying.More Lees in Asia than the rest of the world…period.
Kitty Catkin
/ 15th January 2018You did, ducky, You said that Ling, Ching and Lee sounded Chinese to you and made a sneering comment about them sounding French or Spanish, You would not accept that Lee was a Romany name. You banged on about how common Lee was as a name in China. You cited Bruce Lee….and so on. Too late to try to wriggle out of this one-it’s called painting yourself into a corner.
PDB
/ 15th January 2018duperez
/ 15th January 2018When and where exactly did Ardern call Trump a racist? What did she specifically say?
Kitty Catkin
/ 15th January 2018She didn’t use the actual word. I can’t remember what she did say-that it was unacceptable or words to that effect. I saw in MSN news when I was turning the computer off.
robertguyton
/ 15th January 2018“Did you realise that China doesn’t use the same alphabet as we do…”
Geddawaaaay!
Kitty Catkin
/ 15th January 2018Blazer seemed to think that the Chinese spelt Lee as we do.
lurcher1948
/ 15th January 2018It was a damn good weekend running wise,at i can relate to this..
lurcher1948
/ 15th January 2018One of POTUS#45 little HOTTIES, BUT did his new wife know
https://au.be.yahoo.com/lifestyle/a/38601392/donald-trump-lawyer-allegedly-paid-off-porn-star-stormy-daniels/