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I was having a review of my favorites/bookmarks and came across this ... I probably bookmarked it some time ago (years maybe). I'm sure it'll be of interest to many on here who have an interest in the local culture; apologies if it's been mentioned before. Oh, and the Cramlington Budgie Strangler is listed. http://www.northumbriaanthology.com

3g, Copy and paste gave no response. A requested link gave no response. lets try your third bit of advice. You promised to answer if I bumped it up. Here it is!

Now now Eggy1948. Nice thought that I have influence

Ah, yes, I think you've just identified your own problems: a logical space limit that only you with your larger uploads (and maybe an odd few others) were hitting. Well, good to see that this has been (inadvertently) fixed - the pain had a bit of gain.

Eggy, I Havent been able to upload owt in the discussion forums since website was changed, I've just picked these two at random today and both uploaded first time. Threegee must have had his big hammer out over the Easter hols and put things right.ps both pics from Isle of Man TT 2011

I'm not going to get involved in the debate en masse, mainly because I don't have the time to come and respond to anything that I write at the moment but I figured there'd be some interesting discussion on this particular topic. As for the statement about muslims wanting world domination due to their holy scripture outlining these points then does it not all boil down to the interpretation of said book? There are many factions of all religions and not all of them follow their religious texts to the letter devout or not. The fundamentalist regime spreading throughout the middle east and Europe is what people would deem as the true interpretation of the Quran but the Wahhabi interpreted text. http://www.newstatesman.com/world-affairs/2014/11/wahhabism-isis-how-saudi-arabia-exported-main-source-global-terrorism As for the threat of refugees or migrants coming to our shores and being part of a sleeper cell for a terrorist organisation is something that was always going to happen, yet it seems that we are at most risk by radicalised youths in our own countries. The more worrying bit is that these people are already known to the authorities, and were still able to commit such atrocities. There is no easy answer to the troubles we face and part of the issue may lie with Turkey or other European countries, some of which may lie closer to threegee's door than everyone realises. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/24/inside-the-mafia-isis-connection.html If your first question is "what is the daily beast and is it a reliable source?" then my response to that would be that you should be asking that question of every article you read. What we tend to find now is that a lot of the main coverage is performed by a core set of journalists and the reporting, stolen, shared, regurgitated and taken out of context across the internet. I don't have the answers, and I don't expect any of you lot will. Even if we did we wouldn't be likely to get them in front of an audience where they would be listened to, cared about our considered. Sad times that we are living in at present, and when these topics can stem religious attacks like the one of a Asad Shah in Scotland yesterday because this person was of a particular religion or ethnic group then we need to start worrying about the likes of the gentleman who was arrested for asking a muslim lady about Belgium. One thing that annoys me about the media is the different ways that they report terrorist attacks based on the racial origins of the person committing the offence. White people can still be terrorists. I don't tend to see a lot of these discussions on Facebook due to having removed everyone but a core group of friends, but when I heard some of the unresearched, regurgitated opinions that people discuss at work or out in public, my standard response is to research it for themselves and form their own opinion as this is how stereotypes are allowed to remain.