2024 Rendezvous

[John Elwin]

Very kind - yes please!!

[morninggents]

Originally Posted by andy97

I stopped reading newspapers about 23 years ago - for 3 years I used to attend, and contribute to, the daily intelligence briefs at the UKs Permanent Joint HQ & I reckoned I had a very good handle on what was really going on in U.K. operations around the world. I was listening in to (or presenting) briefs to the General, and listening in to some of the decisions made; next day I would read stuff in the broad sheets about those same operations that was just rubbish and clearly not based on facts. I concluded that either the papers were guessing, making it up or deliberately being fed false info (or all 3). No point in reading the papers for factual info or analysis therefore.

Andy, are you saying that someone at UK Permanent Joint HQ was deliberately giving the press/media false information? If yes - why?

[Gerard C]

Originally Posted by John Elwin

Very kind - yes please!!

Could Iain add a Welsh rarebit and a flammekuesche and why not a fickle Picard and some home fries together with a large train de côtes? And beeeeeeer!

[John Elwin]

Originally Posted by Gerard C

Could Iain add a Welsh rarebit and a flammekuesche and why not a fickle Picard and some home fries together with a large train de côtes? And beeeeeeer!

I would just be happy with a good curry - something sadly missing over here - and of course beer!!

[andy97]

Originally Posted by morninggents

Andy, are you saying that someone at UK Permanent Joint HQ was deliberately giving the press/media false information? If yes - why?

Not necessarily at PJHQ.

But generally, I just believe that the media make things up.

[S griffin]

Originally Posted by andy97

Not necessarily at PJHQ.

But generally, I just believe that the media make things up.

The Media makes things up? You're joking

[Gerard C]

Originally Posted by John Elwin

I would just be happy with a good curry - something sadly missing over here - and of course beer!!

Beer, in your area you have a huge choice! No curry with all the migrants around? Surprising to say the least because our poor country hosts more kebabs than McDos or KFC's!

[Tel 911S]

Originally Posted by andy97

Not necessarily at PJHQ.

But generally, I just believe that the media make things up.

Totally agree with you .
Most of the MSM are controlled by a few of the political types and only allow their lies and agenda to come out .
This has been going on for a long time , but getting worse over the years .
George Orwell,s book 1984 , was written in 1948 , and based upon his working time at the BBC .The MINISTRY OF TRUTH was about the media trying to control the general public by a constant stream of lies and propaganda , and now seems to be an instruction book for the people who want everything to be the way that they want .And now that seems to apply to nearly everything that you might read , hear or see .

[bauble]

Originally Posted by Tel 911S

Totally agree with you .
Most of the MSM are controlled by a few of the political types and only allow their lies and agenda to come out .
This has been going on for a long time , but getting worse over the years .
George Orwell,s book 1984 , was written in 1948 , and based upon his working time at the BBC .The MINISTRY OF TRUTH was about the media trying to control the general public by a constant stream of lies and propaganda , and now seems to be an instruction book for the people who want everything to be the way that they want .And now that seems to apply to nearly everything that you might read , hear or see .

Well it works in Russia, so why not in the UK?

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[VIVA GT]

Originally Posted by andy97

Not necessarily at PJHQ.

But generally, I just believe that the media make things up.

Sadly Andy this is a conclusion I have also reached over the last few years and now tend to take no 'news' at face value and tend to question most things before forming my own conclusions. Plus, the more 'Main Stream' the Media in question is, the more controlled they appear to be (and the less I believe what they tell us).

[Mike Harte]

A lot of the problems are the result of the world's population "needing" to have 24 hour revolving news, and news' outlets competing to have the latest updates. There is also a lot of lazy journalism and the media's seeming requirement to sensationalise virtually everything to keep ahead of their competition. And even the so called trusted outlets are just as guilty as the rest.

A simple example is a report in the last few hours on the BBC website concerning the Post Office Inquiry which heard the last witnesses on Wednesday. Below is a direct quote from the report:

However, in an extraordinary admission, Paul Patterson * revealed the Post Office contacted him as he was heading into the inquiry room to ask if they could use it for another four years.

* Paul Patterson is the boss of Fujitsu Europe

Now reading that you would, naturally, believe that this was shock news to the inquiry. However, this is far from the truth as two or three witnesses in the last month or so have told the inquiry that the replacement system is running years behind schedule, and way, way over budget and there are fears that it could even be 2030 before the new system, NBIT, is up and running in all the branches.

What the report didn't tell readers is that Fujitsu really do not want to continue supporting the Post Office's Horizon system because it is way past it's normal end date, and a large part of the back office administration of the system is already being transferred to the Post office and this will be completed by the end of the 1st quarter of next year. Also not explained in the report that discussion between the two companies about extending the maintenance contract has been ongoing for several months.

[John Elwin]

Originally Posted by Gerard C

Beer, in your area you have a huge choice! No curry with all the migrants around? Surprising to say the least because our poor country hosts more kebabs than McDos or KFC's!

We don't want to encourage them, just get rid of the B's as fast as possible.

[andy97]

Originally Posted by John Elwin

I would just be happy with a good curry - something sadly missing over here - and of course beer!!

You need to move to Castle Donington, more curry houses per square 1/8 mile than probably anywhere outside Mumbai!!!

[delta]

Yes Andy . Always have a good curry normally with good old GP. BTW Friday was not so good . Settled into my seat and asked for a beer only to be told you have to bring your own . Very disappointed .

[John Elwin]

Originally Posted by andy97

You need to move to Castle Donington, more curry houses per square 1/8 mile than probably anywhere outside Mumbai!!!

Bliss!!

[midgetman]

Originally Posted by John Elwin

We don't want to encourage them, just get rid of the B's as fast as possible.

It took me ages to understand what MG's venerated sports car had done to upset you!

Mind you, my MG of choice seems to have upset the applecart in the UK. An academic in Manchester has persuaded Greene King brewery, owner of The Midget (née Magic Midget) pub in Abingdon, to rename it as the existing moniker was disrespectful to short people.

Maybe I'm going to have to change my screen name.........

MM



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[E.B]

Im surprised they have not yet asked for the Isle of Man to be renamed the Isle of Person, or something equally PC and ridiculous..

[midgetman]

The MG Car Club has been involved in renaming it to, I think, the Roaring Raindrop. After one of the 50s record breakers.


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[Tel 911S]

Originally Posted by midgetman

The MG Car Club has been involved in renaming it to, I think, the Roaring Raindrop. After one of the 50s record breakers.


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I am now worried that you might have started a flood of posters with new / woke /silly names for cars we have always known .

[John Elwin]

Originally Posted by midgetman

It took me ages to understand what MG's venerated sports car had done to upset you!

Mind you, my MG of choice seems to have upset the applecart in the UK. An academic in Manchester has persuaded Greene King brewery, owner of The Midget (née Magic Midget) pub in Abingdon, to rename it as the existing moniker was disrespectful to short people.

Maybe I'm going to have to change my screen name.........

MM



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Don't worry, no offence meant to two-seat Morris Oxfords! My father had two Oxford's & they were fine cars. No, I was trying to be polite to a very different sort of 'B'.

[bauble]

Re; renaming the Midget, it a well established fact that six out of seven dwarfs aren't Happy, so it is little (sic) surprise that there have been complaints.

[Peter Mallett]

Well we've got a problem with the MX 5 straightaway.

[Tel 911S]

Originally Posted by bauble

Re; renaming the Midget, it a well established fact that six out of seven dwarfs aren't Happy, so it is little (sic) surprise that there have been complaints.

Well , I did hear that , when they saw Snow White in the Nude , they all came over HAPPY.

[midgetman]

Originally Posted by John Elwin

Don't worry, no offence meant to two-seat Morris Oxfords! My father had two Oxford's & they were fine cars. No, I was trying to be polite to a very different sort of 'B'.

Funny that, we used to refer to them as 2 seater Cambridges

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[midgetman]

Personally I'm offended that the "academic" has chosen to denigrate our tiny little cars in that way. Midgets are rusty, oily bundles of fun that break your heart and your wallet in equal measure, and to align them with a human being hurts. Equal rights for cars - when do we want it? Now!

Midgetman and Proud!

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