@Billo20Four7 @5054magazine @CountLuca Heard lots of these stories from owners..
I was surprised, as it's BMW owned (?)
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@CountLuca @5054magazine Oddly enough, had a Cooper 02 plate new. Spent more time at garage with issues than on my drive. Windscreen let in water, gearbox went & months to fix. Sent letter to Mini MD, rejected it & told dealer to keep it (as it was still there). Mini gave brand new one which was better.
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That London last night. Only walked two short streets and saw three very old R50 Minis, all looking good. A 53 Plate in South Ken. 23 years old... And a 52 plate hatch (24!) and 04 cab in Battersea. Is it one of the most reliable and rust proof cars ever made in the UK?
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@sainsburys
Hello Sainsbury's,
Can you give you store on The Highway in Wapping a deep clean?
The entrance doors are dirty, and the tills have encrusted dirt in them.....
It's not a good look, and hasn't always been like this.
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Got up to some antics last night for Burns Night. Got to show off some incredibly dodgy dance moves.
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Some photographs I took of the beautiful tilework at Dar el Bacha last week
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Bought some quite beautiful 19th century ceramic tiles while I was in Morocco.
Made by Ramos Rejano in Seville, they were used in the construction of the Dar el Bacha palace in Marrakech. These are some of the surplus tiles from its construction.
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@GordonReadman @Will_Tanner_1 Yeah, they had one going and, IIRC, were about set to put up some reconnaissance satellites before the sanctions kicked in and derailed the country.
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You did not, in fact. You just had to be paying attention
By 1993, South Africa was the only First World country left in Africa
America and the UN chased Belgium out of the Congo, and it collapsed into decades of civil war and famine
Mugabe destroyed Rhodesia after we aided the Soviets in helping him win. Angola and Mozambique became hells after Salazar died, the Carnation Revolution happened, and they were given up. Kenya and Sierre Leone all showed the hellish state of things that came with decolonization in the name of "democracy"
South Africa was the last man standing. It had a nuclear program. It had a space program. It had clean, reliable water and electricity. It had a thriving industrial sector. Crime was problematic, but not out of control
Now all of that was gone, for the same reason the Congo is a mess and Zimbabwe went from being the breadbasket of Africa to a famine-ridden mess: decolonization and equity
Anyone who paid attention could have predicted that. Maintaining First World life requires a First World mindset; that dies when handed over to race communists who are happy to backslide into the Stone Age if doing so means "equality" exists
And so South Africa went from First World to Third
Wesley Yang@wesyang
You had to be unacceptably racist in 1993 to predict where South Africa would be in thirty years
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@Will_Tanner_1 This..... This happened.
The Belgians left a nuclear power station in the Congo for the Congolese.
Doesn't have a great ending.
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Keith Woods@KeithWoodsYT
☢️ Congo is home to the first nuclear reactor ever built in Africa, built for them by the Belgians in 1958. The plant has been closed since 2004, when it closed for a scheduled stop and the Congolese have apparently not been able to get it running since. This means that South Africa is the only country in Africa with a commercial nuclear power plant, built by the Afrikaner government in 1984. A 2006 article by the Guardian reported on the state of the reactor two years after the shutdown: armed police assigned to guard it had disappeared, the whole reactor was protected by a simple padlock, but there was a giant hole in the fence one could walk through. Decades earlier, the director of the plant handed the only key required to get to the heart of the plant to a stranger. This apparently led to the disappearance of two rods of enriched uranium in the late 1970s. One of the rods was discovered in the possession of the Italian Mafia in 1998 on its way to the Middle East, the other was never found, and the Congo did not disclose this until almost 30 years later. The large uranium mine in the Congo that provided the uranium for the bombs dropped on Japan has also been subject to intense illegal mining since the 1990s, with reports of "thousands of diggers.. filling thousands of burlap sacks a day with black soil rich in cobalt, copper and radioactive uranium." The estimated IQ of the subsaharan Africans that inhabit the Congo is 65-70.
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The magic dirt theory of college
"Why don't we just put a dozen nuclear reactors in the Congo so it has cheap and reliable electricity, and let the Congolese run it so they have good jobs"
"Why don't we just help felons move into nice neighborhoods in good school zones so they become like the nice middle class people currently in those neighborhoods"
"Why don't we just forgive repeat offenders so they learn to be nice"
Hierarchy and exclusion are necessary to a functioning society. Refusing to recognize that is why nothing works now; equality is a false god that brings dire plagues with it
The Greatest Burger King Facts 🍉🐷👑@greatestbkfacts
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@fakehistoryhunt @Still_learner It's smashing how things become facts.
We were taught the dirty water/ale theory in school. Never questioned. Just accepted.
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Sometimes, in the Middle Ages, people drank beer instead of water
Because the water was dirty, and beer was safer.
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**Rare Cars**
Lotus Carlton
1 of only 950 cars
950 cars were completed: 320 Carltons and 630 Omegas, 150 short of the original target.
Looks like Batman required some shopping at @LidlGB 🤔
What a car and clearly brave parking over that curb 🫣
Shared via Rare cars on the Road
📷 Thomas Nicholls 👏🏻👏🏻
@lotuscars @vauxhall @Opel
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@StevenJosephR @TheCinesthetic Classic. Must have watched it 20 times. Fantastic.
Do watch it if you haven't.....
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Films that flopped at the box office but are actually great.
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@brian_macisaac @TheCinesthetic One of his greatest films. I heard he used lens that were made by NASA to completely remove the depth of feel. The result was every shot looks like a Victoria era painting.
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@MoonshinerMonk @TheCinesthetic Genuinely never heard of this. It must have really gone under the radar.
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For a more contemporary answer, I’d say Horizon, dir. by Kevin Costner. A fantastic S-tier Western; treating natives honestly yet fairly, captivating action sequences, amazing visuals, interesting characters, good writing, and a great setup for beinging the different storylines together.
It’s a shame that, despite high praise at Cannes, it flopped because of a terrible lack of marketing and reviewers didn’t get that it was meant to be the first movie in a trilogy story like Fellowship of the Ring to LotR: setting up different chatacters in separate arcs that converge in later installments.
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@marksimner I really enjoyed this by the great Gordon Corrigan
amazon.co.uk/Mud-Blood-Popp…
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@ProfessorSenko @schuttsm This sounds interesting. I bet he's got some nice (?) stories?
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@schuttsm Dad was a Benedictine monk for 4y in the 60s, His description seems close to “ideal” communism. Everyone worked, all jobs were done etc. The only catch is that it was completely authoritarian and all monks had to obey the abbot. My dad was given 3 hours of free time per week.
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I knew a girl who was a communist who actually did this: live on a commune with pooled resources
She lived with a bunch of artists, she was a software engineer. They would pool their money, and the artists would make their artwork
Eventually she told them “ok, I have enough art”
Then after awhile the whole thing fell apart. A micro Berlin Wall replay
Nick Freitas@NickJFreitas
Do communists in America realize that they are totally free to live as communists in America with no legislative changes required? It's true. They can all get together, buy land, capitol equipment and own it all in common. They can “give according to their ability and receive according to their needs” and no one will lift a finger to stop them There's only one catch…they can't force anyone to join or subsidize them. But it turns out that's too much to ask, so they will continue to advocate violence against others because their ideology is not motivated by “equality.” It’s motivated by violent envy.
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