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I' m not drawing a line to exclude the mentally ill. I'm saying that society does so, and I would tend to agree with you :-) But I do think, and always have, that any one who believes in a god, and thinks that their belief should govern societies rules, such as "the place of women", abortion...

Strangely enough I can..except I didn't need to join any "guardian angels" , nor look for similar recognition ( ersatz police ) to do so. although, like my father before me I did spend some time in the military, being both shot at, and shooting back. The death of an innocent person for a crime...

Agreed, as long as you personally accept to be one of your "false positives". You won't ? So don't wish the possibility of being a false positive upon others. "Footage" is so easily faked..And now with "deep fake" tech, I, or anyone else, can have "footage" of you committing any crime at all.

You don't shop or post with your MIL around then eh ?

They pretty much were the bulk of the communist regime. As the joke used to be in the Brezhnev era ( when his private collection of vintage cars was common knowledge ) the society in the USSR was ostensibly "egalitarian", everyone was equal. But some were far more "equal" than others. In...

Everyone has to produce photo ID to vote in elections here in France ( non french, like me , can only vote in local elections ) and also to show a voter ID card ( which has no photo but is in the same name as the photo ID ). If you are old enough to vote here, you will have photo ID, as photo...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/14/chat-gpt-4-new-model

Over on el reg the pace is known as sillycon valley , which is as apt as it could possibly be.

Sits back, pours drink, puts feet up...

All this proves is that there were some wenches amongst the latest wunch of bankers, nothing more.

There used to be similar fights in some areas of some cities in the UK at many times in the past ( I can think of at least two in London in the time I lived there in the 70s ..Brixton , I lived on "the front line"..loved it :-) ), then there were the mods and the rockers in the 60s, the teds...

I know, I mentioned earlier "up thread" that I'd met some here, they told me they were voting leave because in their opinion there were too many black and brown faces in the UK and in France too.I knew that they'd be affected by a leave vote themselves, and that as you say, you can't fix stupid...

The gulf stream problem is only partially due to the rise in sea level that is already happening with worse to come. It ( the gulf stream problem ) is down to the truly vast amounts of cold freshwater coming off the Greenland glaciers melting, a question of the difference in temperature and...

Something to think about. Whether or not you believe that climate change is influenced by humans or not. If the Thwaite glacier melts, sea levels worldwide will rise by about 80cm , the nearby town ( in France they are called "communes" ) which our "commune was fused with, without asking our...

IIRC there are between 2 and 2.5 million Brits dispersed across the EU countries, as Triton rightly points out(, almost all of them are economic migrants, who moved to the EU in search of a better life.They tend to concentrate in specific areas, in Brittany it is in the centre , around the...

France has about ( I think, as many are not registered with the UK embassy ) about 300 k Brits also, again here for what they perceive as being a better life than they can have in the UK.I don't know if Daniel2 is Brit or Irish or French or whatever, the spelling Daniel works for many origins...

My figures were the most recent I could find at the time I posted them,I was replying to Deema's initial post about Albanians, in which he did not state the time period to which he was referring.I remembered someone here posting in a recent thread about Albanians being the highest percentage of...

I noticed many Brits ( some who had been here for decades but who had never bothered to learn french ) trying that in the Prefecture when it came to trying to exchange their UK driving licences for French ones.They were unlucky, the very charming and helpful french lady ( if you were polite with...

Irregular Immigration to the UK latest official figures. https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/irregular-migration-to-the-uk-year-ending-march-2022/irregular-migration-to-the-uk-year-ending-march-2022 Albanians are one of the smallest groups , fewer than Vietnamese, the largest group is...

Looks like average french roofers.