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    The EU: In, out, shake it all about....

    ‘Golden passports’ threaten European security, warns EU commissioner Europe’s security is being put at risk by so-called “golden passport” schemes that have allowed states to sell citizenship or residency to potentially “dangerous” individuals, the EU justice commissioner has warned. Věra...
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    Death List 2018

    The same way people think Apple was founded entirely by Steve Jobs and forget about Steve Wozniak.
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    New Dr Who

    The same is true of stories set in the future. They always exhibit present day attitudes even though these have only been around for a few decades at most and are unlikely to survive a hundred years in the future. You can also tell which decade a show was made in from the make-up the actresses...
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    New Dr Who

    I heard that the remake of "Charmed" is even worse in that respect, although I can't imagine many people here wanting to watch it. There's also a politically correct version of "Roseanne" coming, minus Ms Barr herself.
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    The EU: In, out, shake it all about....

    I didn't mention AfD! The EU: In, out, shake it all about....
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    The EU: In, out, shake it all about....

    But not for long though eh? :emoji_stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: Bavaria election: Merkel's conservative allies humiliated Angela Merkel’s conservative partners in Bavaria have had their worst election performance for more than six decades, in a humiliating state poll result that is likely to...
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    Chip shop prices

    Medium fish & chips recently increased from £4.99 to £5.30 at the Spon End Fish Bar.
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    Bits of the UK you've never been to .....

    It's not the original though: Dreamland Margate - Wikipedia The site was pretty much an empty wasteland the last time I saw it.
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    Bits of the UK you've never been to .....

    Margate's idea of an infinity pool is a walled enclosure which fills up with seawater, seaweed and jellyfish when the tide is in. There was at one time a pier which at least offered changing facilities but even that's now gone. I remember thinking "Where's the pool? Is that it?!!!" It's only...
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    New Dr Who

    Thats amazing, Mrs Otis looks just like Jodie Whittaker! :o
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    New Dr Who

    What does Mrs Otis think of Dr Who or do I not need to ask?
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    The walking dead starts again tonight

    That's still a huge figure for cable, more than three-times what Westworld got, and excludes repeat showings of which there are many.
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    New Dr Who

    It looks a bit kinky to me?
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    New Dr Who

    We've already got a 'Wynonna Earp' so how about a 'Daisy Crocket'? "Daisy... Daisy Crocket, Queen of the wild frontier".
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    Dave Gorman

    Oh, I hadn't seen it before and TV Guide didn't say it was a repeat so I assumed it was a new series.
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    Death List 2018

    Alan Simpson died last year. The pair met at a sanitorium while recovering from TB. It was the subject of their last writing project together but went virtually unnoticed.
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    Dave Gorman

    New series just started if I'm not mistaken? I'm generally hopeless at keeping track of new series.
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    The EU: In, out, shake it all about....

    Italy's pro-refugee mayor Domenico Lucano arrested The mayor of an Italian town known around the world as a model of integration has been put under house arrest for 'aiding illegal migration'. Domenico Lucano, who has been the mayor of the southern Italian town of Riace since 2004, is also...
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    Game of thrones ( reprise)

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    Things that annoy you

    Has to be listened to on a 1950s radiogram to be appreciated properly. I'm not kidding, it's the way records were recorded in those days.
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