news & politics:discussion

[Neil]

21 hours ago, Neil said:

feeling happy cos i've just found my  two smartwatches that i'd not seen for four months and thought they might be lost. 🙂 

they're very good smartwatches with features that're wasted on me and  annoyingly short battery lives.

they're a pain in the arse to setup - would probably help if i knew what i was doing.

[Neil]

4 minutes ago, Barry Fish said:

Which ones you got ? 

Most need an app and the stars to align to get them to bluetooth with your phone 😛 

i've had them a while: ticwatch E2 and E3.

E3 is the top of the range one, still has sh*t battery life. i wanted ones that use wear os rather than propriatory stuff.

 

used to have a sony smartwatch but it died.

[Neil]

5 hours ago, Barry Fish said:

Most need an app and the stars to align to get them to bluetooth with your phone 😛 

bluetooth worked a dream when i reset the watch. i like bluetooth it works well, it took about a decade for the big tech firms to nail down the spec for it, they did a good job i'd say.

Edited December 18, 2023 by Neil

[Skip997]

3 hours ago, Barry Fish said:

If Hamas are not going to surrender and Israel don't fancy being wiped off the face of the earth - whats your answer ?

And just exactly who is going to wipe Israeli from the face of the earth?

Hamas aren't capable of doing so

[Skip997]

The Nakba

[steviewevie]

This Mone PPE thing is dodge.

[Skip997]

9 minutes ago, Barry Fish said:

@Skip997has no answers...  shocked

Do you?

 

[Skip997]

10 minutes ago, Barry Fish said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67745408

Israel has gone beyond self-defence in Gaza, Tory MP Alicia Kearns says

Another unhappy Tory.

Was always going to be the case.

[steviewevie]

We have answers to how to achieve lasting peace in the middle East on this forum? Wow. Hope the powers that be are reading. Does it involve continuing the destruction of Gaza in the hope that they will kill some Hamas? Or does it involve a ceasefire, hostage release and negotiations on a way forward for that whole region?

[Skip997]

13 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

We have answers to how to achieve lasting peace in the middle East on this forum? Wow. Hope the powers that be are reading. Does it involve continuing the destruction of Gaza in the hope that they will kill some Hamas? Or does it involve a ceasefire, hostage release and negotiations on a way forward for that whole region?

If we had a time machine to go back to 1948, with our current knowledge, we might have a chance.

[steviewevie]

15 minutes ago, Skip997 said:

If we had a time machine to go back to 1948, with our current knowledge, we might have a chance.

Might do better to go back to the early 1930s...

[lost]

Regarding what the saudis are doing Yemen. I'm actually not convinced that going back to 1948 would work. Would the Sunni's accept the Shiites being in control of Jerusalem or would they be doing the same thing Israel is doing and judging by the state of Yemen alot worse.

Edited December 18, 2023 by lost

[steviewevie]

4 minutes ago, lost said:

Regarding what the saudis are doing Yemen. I'm actually not convinced that going back to 1948 would work. Would the Sunni's accept the Shiites being in control of Jerusalem or would they be doing the same thing Israel is doing and judging by the state of Yemen alot worse.

Yeah but no one would care.

[Skip997]

4 minutes ago, Barry Fish said:

wow - wrong.  Your limited history knowledge kicking in now.

So the Israelis didn't forcibly remove approximately 750,000 Palestinians--over 80% of the population from their homes?

Well that's news to me

[steviewevie]

In the end the Palestinians are victims of victims, the main perpetrators are the Europeans.

[Skip997]

6 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

In the end the Palestinians are victims of victims, the main perpetrators are the Europeans.

Correct

[Neil]

59 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

Might do better to go back to the early 1930s...

1918. : 😛 

[Neil]

2 hours ago, steviewevie said:

This Mone PPE thing is dodge.

who knew the tories were corrupt.

[steviewevie]

4 minutes ago, Neil said:

1918. : 😛 

586 BC

[Neil]

Just now, steviewevie said:

586 BC

i went for 1918 for the balfour declaration. 😛

 

[steviewevie]

59 minutes ago, Neil said:

i went for 1918 for the balfour declaration. 😛

 

Oh, I was thinking the Babylonian exile.

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[steviewevie]

10 minutes ago, Ozanne said:

 

Jan 25 confirmed 

[Neil]

1 hour ago, steviewevie said:

Jan 25 confirmed 

reckon it'll be earlier than that if they go to the limit the pm loses control over it.

[steviewevie]