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    I sort of see your point Adam, but I reckon I have a right to complain because I have no confidence in the people to vote for!! If you get my drift! By that I mean I want to vote but there is no one I trust or care to vote for. Let's say a general election is called for with the present runners; Look at my choice - David Cameron, Nick Clegg or Ed Milliband. It is totally disheartening! Why bother? I would just be voting one incompetant in to replace another. So my none vote is sort of a stand against the choices I have.
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    Was there a Home Guard based at Hartford Hall? Has it got something to do with that - 1940s? The street could be the Rows (Raas).
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    AUSTRALIAN ATHLETICS CONTEST The Australian boomerang champion was hit by his own boomerang today. They reckon he had it coming to him. At the same stadium water threatened the long jump - the contestants had to take a runny jump instead. The Sydney gold-medallist archer is on target for another gold. None of the javelins managed to stick in the ground. They were going to try again but couldn't see the point in it. Dick Frosby made a come-back bid but flopped. Samuel Morse entered the 100 metre dash dash dash dot dot dot. Tell me when you're sick?
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    Maggie, no one wants anyone to resign. It's just this EWD thing is getting volatile. It is a touchy subject and even the historians are split about her motives and designs. She could have done more harm to the WSPU on that day than people are aware. It was the King's horse!!!! As the other Keith said if that happened today there would be hell to pay.
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    I've never believed that women have just sat back in the shadows and said yes this and yes that throughout history. Look at some of the most powerful women in past times, Cleopatra, Boudicca, Pocahontas, Victoria, Elizabeth, way before voting was an issue. I Honestly think that women have had more say in the decision making of Presidents and Prime Ministers than we'll ever know. In the American Civil War women bullied and goaded generals and authorities into giving them the right to attend the wounded on the battlefield. Clara Barton, Dorothea Dix, Mary Ann Byckerdyke and Elizabeth Blackwell. Women with strong wills who went on to achieve great things in a 'man's world'. Please read Lysistrata by Aristophanes, it is a great slant on ancient Greece and male dominance.
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    Excuse me Maggie! Is this a threat? I personally do not take kindly to threats, especially on an open site. I urge the Moderators and Administrators to look into this. Bedlington.co.uk is a marvelous site for sharing information and discussing issues regarding Bedlington and surounding areas. The debates can be varied and lively but I think you are pushing the issue with Emily Wilding Davison - a Morpeth lass. I wasn't even involved in this last batch of debates on this topic but have already voiced my opinions on the subject and was ready to leave it be. Please don't turn this site into a muck-slinging arena. You have already insulted me by calling me a Daily Mail reader and I resent that profoundly. Keep this site friendly, Maggie. I can't speak for the other Keith but I certainly wont stand for being threatened on Bedlington.co.uk.
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    HPW - I hated school. I hated the teachers who were nothing more than bullies, at least some of them. But I loved reading and learning. I left school with no qualifications, as such. But when I was in my forties I put in for the Open University - History, Classical Studies, and got my Ba. I'm not bragging here, I simply wanted to prove that I could do it and given the right teaching and circumstances I could have made something of my life. Those years with the OU were some of the best I ever had. Maggie - You are right about history - it does teach us something. We can look at the mistakes of the past and try not to repeat them. Unfortunately we do repeat them. It is part of the human condition.
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    Same here, Lone Ranger, so much for democracy.
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    Democracy, with this government, means I am now going to have to pay £10 more for a spare room I have. A room in a house I have lived in for 16 years in a street I have lived in for 52 years. This from a government that NOBODY voted into power. We once had at least a three-party vote in this country. Now, Thanks to Gordo we have one - the tories. Don't talk of democracy as if it is a great thing. Even the Greeks, the so-called founders of democracy, were more tyrannical than most people think.
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    You want to have a look at the old tennis courts at the bottom of the High School at Queens and Kings Road - overlooking the motorway. I remember playing tennis there once!!! Then take a look at the side of the Station Library. But these things are nothing compared to the wasted shop space in our town. There can be no worse condemnation than a town with shops going spare and local people who have to go out of the community to buy a decent selection of shoes and clothes. I was at Blyth and Ashington last week and they are veritable boom towns compared to ours, so I agree whole-heartedly with you, TomTom.
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    I got home from the shops today and found I'd been burgled. The thief took my kit kats, my penguins, my bourbons and custard creams. "Doesn't that take the biscuit." I thought. So I rushed upstairs to check on my Walt Disney figurines. There was Goofy, there was Donald Duck, there was Pluto and Minnie...damn it, they've taken the Mickey. So I checked my medicine cabinet and found my urine sample was missing...well that's just taking....advantage of the situation isn't it.
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    It'll be like PAINT YOUR WAGON, HPW, when the town disappears. There must be shafts all over Bedlington. My dad was a cutter and died when the roof caved in at Dr. Pit - 1956 - two months before I was born. I used to see that pit heap every morning when I drew back my bedroom curtains. It was like a mountain on your doorstep. The residents of Rothsay Terrace must have feared for their lives in case there was another Aberfan.
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    Cheers, John, I wasn't born until 1956 but I am surprised my mother or granny didn't mention it.
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    Moving on from banana sandwiches - how about sliced beetroot sandwiches. You looked like Kathy Kirby when you finished eating them, what with all the red beetroot on your lips. I've just bought a jar at Tescos, Dee Liscious. Where's the microphone....once I had a secret love....
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    HPW. Have you ever considered Self-Publishing? I was chairman of a writers group - up until last year - and one of the team got his work published via self-publishing. (It is also called vanity press.) The books were really good and everyone in the group was impressed by the standard of the printing and presentation. I think it cost him about £300 but that varied to his needs. He got eight or nine copies out of that. One of the other members followed suit and I thought it was a great way to get your personal feelings into book form for the family - instead of piles of loose paper - like MickyPotts experience. (Heartbreaking that - I think I would have come back and haunted her.) But it's just a thought, HPW. Good luck.
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    I was in Tino's Deli this morning and a Red Indian walked in with his father. He said "What do you want, Dad?" And the father said "I'll have a mocha son." I couldn't help notice them because one had long black hair with an image of George Michael on the left side and Andrew Ridgeley on the right. I said to the girlfriend "I bet that's a wig-wham. They told us they had just gotten jobs at a factory in Cramlington - Thomas Tee pee. I asked if they were moving to Bedlington and they said maybe, but they had reservations. They were staying with their Irish uncle - Tom O'Hawk. They both left and jumped on some ponies outside. One of the ponies suddenly bolted and started jumping over cars. "Crazy Horse." I said.
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    I went to Gateshead Athletics stadium yesterday and I saw all these mannequins practicsiing for the 100 metre dash. I asked the groundsman what was going on and he said "Dummy run." I left there and went for my orienteering course. The instructions told me to go left, left and left again. I thought "This can't be right." Then I went to Whitley Bay Ice Rink and the superintendent gave me a pair of worn boots with rusty blades. "Cheap skate." I thought. Then I went to Gills chip shop at Seaton Sluice and asked for fish and chips twice. The girl behind the counter said "I heard you th first time."
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    John W SNRG I had heard of Alan Parsons but nothing by him. I am much impressed. Cheers JohnW SNRG. Here's another one of my favourite headphone tracks - from one of the scariest films I have ever seen. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4SUEYZBfm4
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    BAD LANGUAGE USED!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbKDgF8CvmQ
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    Are you on about Solar Fields Brett? Because I think he-they are great.
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    A GOLDEN AGE? World War I Russian Civil War Finnish Civil War Cristero War Spanish Civil War Irish Civil War World War II - Germany vs. Poland World War II - Germany vs. France World War II - Germany vs. Russia World War II - Allies vs. Germany World War II - Allies vs. Italy World War II - Allies vs. Germany in Africa World War II - Allies vs. Italy in Africa World War II - Japan vs. Korea World War II - Japan vs. China World War II - Japan vs. Philippines World War II - Allies vs. Japan World War II - Japanese theatre China Civil War Greek Civil War Costa Rican War 1948 War of Independence (Israel) Sinai War (Israel) Kasmir War (India/Pakistan) Chinese Occupation of Tibet (whether this is a war is a contested subject) Korean Civil War (involving Russian, China and the U.S., too) Sino-Indian War Indo-Pakistan War of 1965 Indo-Pakistan War of 1971 Vietnam Civil War (involving France and then the U.S., too) Cambodian Civil War Guatamalan Civil War Six Day War (Israel/Many middle-east countries) War of Attritian (Israel/Egypt) Yom Kippur War (Israel/Egypt/Syria) Nigerian Civil War Lebanese Civil War Algerian Civil War First Sudanese Civil War First Lebanon War (Israel) East Timor (Indonesia/East Timor) Russia-Afghanistan War Salvador Civil War Ethiopian Civil War Falkan War (Britain/Argentina) Iran-Iraq War US-Iraq Kuwait Liberation War Sierra Leone Civil War Serbian War Rwandan Civil War Kargil War Second Sudanese Civil War US-Iraq Occupation War Second Lebanon War (Israel) US-Afghanistan War Were Cameron - Clegg voted in?
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    Heard a lot from this bloke - Magnus Birgersson (Solar Fields) - very good. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMH6THjJi-Q
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    Went up to Boulmer today and just as I got there the RAF's new egg-shaped fighter planes took off. "They've been scrambled." I thought. As I was coming out I saw a guy with a door handle on his brow. "Knobhead." Then I saw this bloke standing on the corner selling magazines. "I bet he's got issues." Then Norman Tebbit stopped me and asked me to vote for him in the next election. "On Your bike." I said.
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    That's wonderful, Merc', really pleased for you.
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    Music is like a time machine. You play a certain record and it takes you straight back to that place or person where you first heard it. I only ever listen to my stuff with headphones on because music to me is personal. By all means share records with others but the best way is to put the phones on and take a trip back in time.
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