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Post by flatandy on Nov 22, 2022 12:34:42 GMT
I see England's social justice league players have crumbled at the slightest of threats and given up wearing the rainbow armbands. Principles? Don't like these ones, I've got others. Pathetic. Not just England's, either. Basically every European country. "I'm such a good ally" "How good" "Well, good-ish, but not enough to risk a yellow card for" |
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Post by ootlg on Nov 22, 2022 13:33:12 GMT
Thesiger's Crossing the Empty Quarter is a great book. The Marsh Arabs by the same author is equally good. More books I gave to someone to read which never came back.
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Post by ootlg on Nov 22, 2022 13:35:22 GMT
His Highness Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani thinks they're bending the knee for him.
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Post by flatandy on Nov 22, 2022 13:53:04 GMT
I never read Thesiger because I took against him reading the last parts of Eric Newby's A Short Walk In The Hindu Kush (I assume you've read it?).
Reading that passage again, I think I was probably entirely unfair and should have a go at the Empty Quarter.
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Post by unclejunior on Nov 22, 2022 14:24:20 GMT
I m hearing that the Saudis were 270/1 to win the game in play just after Messi scored his penalty…!!
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Post by ootlg on Nov 22, 2022 16:11:49 GMT
I never read Thesiger because I took against him reading the last parts of Eric Newby's A Short Walk In The Hindu Kush (I assume you've read it?). Reading that passage again, I think I was probably entirely unfair and should have a go at the Empty Quarter. I loved a short walk in the Hindu Kush. Can't remember the passage to which you refer though. It's all very depressing the way politics and war have changed these areas. |
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Post by flatandy on Nov 22, 2022 16:17:55 GMT
It's right at the end. The last paragraph of the book is"
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Post by ootlg on Nov 22, 2022 16:38:57 GMT
Lingo of the day and probably said in jest, I'd say. When I was out that way airbeds were laughed at. I even slept in a storm pipe once.
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Post by ootlg on Nov 22, 2022 16:39:55 GMT
<storm pipes? - you were lucky...>
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Post by mids on Nov 22, 2022 16:53:21 GMT
A short walk in the Hindu's bush, more like...
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Post by voice on Nov 22, 2022 17:49:46 GMT
Or, short stork in a Hindu bush...
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Post by perrykneeham on Nov 22, 2022 18:36:10 GMT
I guess you can't remember every passage.
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Post by mids on Nov 22, 2022 19:08:47 GMT
A Back Passage to India.
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Post by mids on Nov 22, 2022 19:29:09 GMT
If I half shut my eyes and turn the sound down, I can pretend that France is Scotland.
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Post by voice on Nov 22, 2022 19:31:08 GMT
Easier cos they are loosing...
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Post by voice on Nov 22, 2022 19:31:36 GMT
Oh drawing now I see, still.
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Post by mids on Nov 22, 2022 19:40:36 GMT
2-1 to Sco... I mean France now.
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Post by voice on Nov 22, 2022 19:44:08 GMT
Making the imagining so much harder.
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Post by Repat Van on Nov 22, 2022 20:42:43 GMT
I've never been to Qatar or the Gulf countries generally. No interest in doing so. They sound dreadful, but I'm told that Oman is quite pleasant. I’ve just been to UAE and Qatar. Work demanded it. Of the ex-pat places to visit there were definitely worse options. |
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Post by flatandy on Nov 22, 2022 21:47:46 GMT
I've never been to Qatar or the Gulf countries generally. No interest in doing so. They sound dreadful, but I'm told that Oman is quite pleasant. I’ve just been to UAE and Qatar. Work demanded it. Of the ex-pat places to visit there were definitely worse options. Kabul? Kinshasa? Port au Prince? |
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