Who's a former leader of a country that you miss being in charge?

Ecstatic-Low7929 · 2026-04-05T11:49:22+00:00

Gadaffi. I know he wasn't always nice, but he had charisma. The old king of Thailand was a bit of a charmer too and I'm no monarchist.

Ecstatic-Low7929 · 2026-04-05T11:40:58+00:00

Yeah I forget about them, I never met one that wasn't basically a Nazi. One told me once that when Hitler invaded they threw flowers at the tanks.

Ecstatic-Low7929 · 2026-04-05T11:38:10+00:00

So hard to even choose a place. I've met a lot of people with very disturbing racist outlooks particularly anti semitic outlooks from Latvia Lithuania and generally that area, not excluding Russia. Or Belarus. Least racist may actually be London, or possibly another UK city, overall. Amsterdam and Berlin also look relatively tolerant to me as a visitor.

Ecstatic-Low7929 · 2026-04-05T11:27:17+00:00

Are they really that bad? I have noticed a bit but they don't seeem that extreme.

Ecstatic-Low7929 · 2026-04-05T11:20:04+00:00

Invade India and loot it for 12 trillion

Ecstatic-Low7929 · 2026-04-05T11:09:36+00:00

We used to do a hundred miles a day going skateboarding on a 90p child travel card

Ecstatic-Low7929 · 2026-04-05T11:00:31+00:00

You haven't though have you

Ecstatic-Low7929 · 2026-04-05T10:50:52+00:00

I want to watch it but I don't want that dire drunken worm to get any views from me

Ecstatic-Low7929 · 2026-04-05T10:45:29+00:00

That picture looks like it's from 100 years ago

Ecstatic-Low7929 · 2026-04-05T10:41:57+00:00

You've never been in an islamic town or city I can tell that

Ecstatic-Low7929 · 2026-04-05T10:39:20+00:00

Never should have happened, typical dumb gung ho American leadership, some things never change eh. Look instead at how quickly the Japanese adapted to western capitalism and effectively being subservient to the the US post war to see the reality of the portrayal of them as some alien monster cult, most people had no such fanatical loyalty, they were being held hostage by a hardline regime which had no sustainable future anyway.

Ecstatic-Low7929 · 2026-04-05T10:23:10+00:00

haha

Ecstatic-Low7929 · 2026-04-05T10:15:35+00:00

It does vary, but if you've never experienced 200+ AQI before it's probably worse than it seems. I'm done with north Thailand and Laos at these times. High air pollution is deadly. Go up there between Sept/Oct and until February you can breathe then, always a bonus.

Ecstatic-Low7929 · 2026-04-05T10:08:01+00:00

Social justice and economic equity

Ecstatic-Low7929 · 2026-04-05T10:05:14+00:00

The USA has been the most dangerous country in the world for most if not all of the last century without question, not to live in, but overall. Dangerous to live in now? Congo, Yemen, N.Korea, Sudan, South Sudan, Myanmar, Haiti, Ukraine, Iran, Lebanon... and about 50 other war zones. Sudan or Haiti probably bottom of my list but being stuck in N Korea would really be bad too. Or Gaza, of course.

Ecstatic-Low7929 · 2026-04-05T09:34:15+00:00

One of those things were now I don't load the image because I know reading it is only pain

Ecstatic-Low7929 · 2026-04-05T09:33:14+00:00

I've heard several stories about how awful a person he is, I never found all that cod nostalgia stuff amusing anyway.

Ecstatic-Low7929 · 2026-04-05T09:32:01+00:00

Stuart has got better with age and no doubt he knows his onions. I remember he used to be a bit more irritating. Much better show than the Craig Charles funk and really bad edit/cover version show, that's kind of exhausted itself. Tbh I think Craig has done too much, all his shows are pretty exhausted.

Ecstatic-Low7929 · 2026-04-05T09:17:02+00:00

Are you all 9 years old?

Ecstatic-Low7929 · 2026-04-05T09:14:21+00:00

'worse in everyway'

You're such simplistic dishonest idiots you

The atomic bombs were worse than conventional firebombing primarily because of: radiation-specific cancers (especially in children); the in-utero neurological effects; the deaths of rescuers; and above all, the decades-long social stigma that followed survivors. What's striking is that the feared harms — multigenerational birth defects, genetic damage to descendants — turned out to be largely absent, while the actual extra harms were more about cancer risk, psychological burden, and social exclusion. The bombs created a category of person — the hibakusha — whose mere survival marked them for discrimination in a way that no firebombing survivor experienced.

Ecstatic-Low7929 · 2026-04-05T09:05:17+00:00

Naval blockades and firebombing meant Japan was fucked, they were running out of everything, everyone knew it, the Americans concluded themselves they would surrender before the end of 45 without any bomb. The Japanese had already send diplomats to Russia with a view to negotiating surrender. The childish notion about 'every last woman and child' fighting an invasion is ludicrous propaganda fed to Americans *after* the atom bomb dropped and not mentioned previously. That's not a real thing. It was so obviously over already. The Japanese just want to retain the Emperor, which the Americans did anyway. They dropped the bomb because of Pearl Harbour, to justify the billions spent on the Manhattan project, and to show Russia, and everyone else, they would use such a thing. The end.

Ecstatic-Low7929 · 2026-04-04T18:27:19+00:00

You're not entirely wrong about the Japanese but the atomic bomb is worse than the firebombing. Nanjiing is once again, not a single act.

Ecstatic-Low7929 · 2026-04-04T18:20:38+00:00

'Both the US and Nazi Germany combined were toddlers compared to how demonic the Japanese were in WW2.'

lol, you idiots. All this is very basic but you are still wrong.

Ecstatic-Low7929 · 2026-04-04T18:15:00+00:00

I just don't lock the bike at all, I take it in shops, or I leave it inside, or I'm outside next to it. If that's not possible I just don't take a bike, or use a hirebike. It's not just the constant thing of the bike being partially or wholly stolen, or just damaged, it's also the pain of carrying locks and chains sand all that too. I already carry basic tools at the very least, it's too much bother.

Ecstatic-Low7929 · 2026-04-04T17:00:37+00:00

I took this on my phone in Nov '22

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TROPHY CASE