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neilh

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@ Roberta & Fredbassett What are the good or valid points of the EDL and BNP?

@ Andysport. Gwneud yn dda!  See Welsh could work.  Who'd have thought that simple conversations in Welsh would ever be seen on the Dawlish.com site.  From little acorns.  By the way did you see the award for the 'secondary school teacher of the year' was given to a teacher of Japanese.  Diolch yn fawr Andysport.

21 Oct 2013

ooh all my capital letters disappeared. extra bare weird.

21 Oct 2013

@Lynne .  i see that exeter university have an intake of roughly 1500 chinese students and also run an office in beijing.  foreign language teaching in general is on the decline in both schools and universities, but i guess if we do want to promote learning of a second language then it should either be welsh or mandarin, depending on which of those two countries we think will be the dominant ...

21 Oct 2013

@Don Sup blud? Bare aggie innit, yeah?!

This seems like an excellent idea but why can't they team up with the Woodland Trust.  Then maybe there could be an option of free fruit trees being delivered to schools, or even encouraging the setting up of community orchards.

Interesting article by George Monbiot questioning who are the real threat to this country and other nations, and it ain't terrorists. http://www.monbiot.com/2013/10/14/elite-insurgency/

@Don Yes naughty but couldn't resist.  There's always Tor of course if you're prepared to risk the dark internet although it looks like NSA may even have hacked that when the Silkroad web-site was brought down.

14 Oct 2013

Absolutely safe in Google's hands under the benevolent protection of the National Security Agency.

Absolutely right b.o.liking. Churchill was stockpiling chemical weapons and considering their use in WW2 - see http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/like-assad-churchill-liked-to-stockpile-poison-gas-8876357.html US deployed agent orange during the Vietnam War - " Vietnam estimates 400,000 people were killed or maimed, and 500,000 children born with birth defects as a result ...