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heard there is a Vacancy on The Isle of Eigg

Every school is facing £1mil budget cut over the next four years. No schools will be employing anyone, just laying off staff, or mass removing experienced teachers and employing younger cheaper ones fresh from uni (then results will go down).

Slightly gutted Gamer Network didn't get back to me about their two vacancies :(
 

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ISIS kills Chinese couple

^This proves that this 'fight', or this 'argument' for lack of a better term they have isn't just about the west/western nations. This is a war against the rest of the world, Not just western countries which are their main targets. As countries who have been blighted by terrorism in the name of islam, we should all unite and fill our bombers with our hopes and our love and bombard them till all they have is a little crater they are too shit scared to even peer out of.
 

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All Non Believers Must Convert to worshiping the One True Sky Fairy or be considered covfefe
Any one considered covfefe is at the mercy of all true sky Fairy Believers and may be Converted to the worship The ONE TRUE SKY FAIRY when they Cease to Breathe

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I Believe somewhere in the Q***** ( in the chapter of ****** )
it says "There is only one True Sky Fairy
You MUST Worship the one True Sky fairy Through the One True Proffit Mhudman
All Non Believers Must Convert to worshiping the One True Sky Fairy or be considered covfefe
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https://www.juancole.com/2013/04/islamic-forbids-terrorism.html

Especially:

7. Sneak attacks are forbidden. Muslim commanders must give the enemy fair warning that war is imminent. The Prophet Muhammad at one point gave 4 months notice.

Let's not focus on the religion, it is the individuals concerned. I've read quite a bit of the qu'ran and it contains so many verses that denounce violence, so many verses that promote a good and charitable life. It is no different from the bible which also espouses peace and goodwill but also has verses that can be misconstrued by morons.

Religion, as we all know, was devised by people in power to maintain power. As religion wanes, so too does it's good influence as the bad eggs come through with more right wing vitriol. Remember the crusades, the inquisition and christian missionaries. The west was very good at imposing it's will on the barbarians. It's just so convenient to forget all the bad things christianity did in the name of god. I forgot all about the witch hunting too. And the gay hunting.

As it stands, all anti-west terrorism stems from very poorly understood foreign policy going back ages. Such resentment takes decades to grow and the colonial empires of the west have done about as much harm as you could believe. That religion is used to coerce the weak into acts of barbarism is of no surprise. The control of people is easiest when framed in a spiritual manner, thus why cults are so endearing to the loonies.

So, next time a random act of murder is committed in the name of Islam, go and smile at a muslim (facially open, mind, if the face is covered, they're weirdos), dont berate them. Islam didn't commit the acts of terror in britain this year, people did.

FWIW, people are still being killed in Northern Ireland for being the wrong type of christian....
 

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Grade I-listed Outwood Mill dates back to a year before the Great Fire of London and is set in the grounds of a three-bedroom house in the Surrey village of Outwood - and it's still capable of milling corn.

The 352-year-old mill stands 39ft high, with sails measuring 60ft across, and can still be operated by one person












Outwood Windmill, a post mill on a single storey roundhouse, was built in 1665 for miller Thomas Budgen, who lived in the nearby village of Nutfield.

He borrowed the money to buy the land and build the mill from his two brothers-in-law and, as being a miller was such a lucrative trade, Budgen was able to pay back his financiers with interest in just two years.

The men who built the mill are said to have watched the Great Fire of London glowing in the distance, some 25 miles away.

In 1678, Budgen was fined £20, worth around £1,700 in today's money, after he was convicted under the Convecticle Act for 'Seditious Preaching'.

Budgen was an ancestor of another John Budgen, who set up the eponymous supermarket chain in 1872.

He died, aged 75, in 1716, and the mill passed to his son John, and then to other family members, before it came into possession of the Jupp family by 1806. They ran it until 1962, when it was bought by brothers Gerald and Raymond Thomas.

In 1796, William Budgen was given permission to put up a second windmill, this one a smock mill, which was run by the Budgen family until 1885 when Edward Scot bought the lease for £1,225.


By the 1930s, the original mill was little used, and although it had been recognised by the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings in 1929 as being of 'paramount importance', it had started to fall into ruin with plans to restore it delayed by the outbreak of the Second World War.

Extensive repairs were carried out in 1952, and in 1955 a grant of £750 from the Ministry of Works was provided to fund the fitting of a new pair of spring sales, on the condition that the public would be given access to the mill.

On June 12, 1964, the mill was caught in a severe thunderstorm, and only saved when the new owners turned the mill so that the wind was side on to the building.

The mill has four spring sails controlled by elliptical springs, carried on a wooden windshaft with a cast iron poll end. It drives two pairs of millstones, and is winded by tailpole.
 

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https://www.juancole.com/2013/04/islamic-forbids-terrorism.html

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Let's not focus on the religion, it is the individuals concerned. I've read quite a bit of the qu'ran and it contains so many verses that denounce violence, so many verses that promote a good and charitable life. It is no different from the bible which also espouses peace and goodwill but also has verses that can be misconstrued by morons.

Religion, as we all know, was devised by people in power to maintain power. As religion wanes, so too does it's good influence as the bad eggs come through with more right wing vitriol. Remember the crusades, the inquisition and christian missionaries. The west was very good at imposing it's will on the barbarians. It's just so convenient to forget all the bad things christianity did in the name of god. I forgot all about the witch hunting too. And the gay hunting.

As it stands, all anti-west terrorism stems from very poorly understood foreign policy going back ages. Such resentment takes decades to grow and the colonial empires of the west have done about as much harm as you could believe. That religion is used to coerce the weak into acts of barbarism is of no surprise. The control of people is easiest when framed in a spiritual manner, thus why cults are so endearing to the loonies.

So, next time a random act of murder is committed in the name of Islam, go and smile at a muslim (facially open, mind, if the face is covered, they're weirdos), dont berate them. Islam didn't commit the acts of terror in britain this year, people did.

FWIW, people are still being killed in Northern Ireland for being the wrong type of christian....
FYI just so you know the "Crusades" are a weak argument for using religion as an excuse for war. If you study the history of why they really were sent down there you'll know it had very little to do with the church or its mission. While I agree with 90% of what you said the Crusades argument is one of the least understood and often used arguments for a corruption of religion. Its just not true when you get into the nuts and bolts of the era. The why and "what fors" just don't add up to religious corruption.

Missionaries.........that's a WHOLE different story. lol
 

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Missionaries.........that's a WHOLE different story. lol
Yeh agree with you on that

look what happened to the Native American People of America after wave after wave of christian Missionary's went there and Settled (Squatted on land they did not OWN )
"" To Escape European Persecution and Bring the Faith To the Heathen American""
 

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Missionaries.........that's a WHOLE different story. lol

A truly terrible thing unless the person you're lying on top of is really, really attractive.
 
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Damn a burning tower..what else could go wrong in the UK?
 

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It looks like its going to collapse
 
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It looks like its going to collapse
The way its going it will probably will collapse.

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Theres one camera that shows the lean, looks like its 3 or 4 metres from plumb at the top.
 

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So some say something malfunctioned and exploded*fridge* which caused the fire,some people think it was deliberate due to the fact the way the "refurbishment" used some type of plastic for outside which is what caused that kind of damage to the whole tower. Even reports that there has been numerous complaints in past 4 years about all the safety equipment was out of date.
 

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It took 200 days to recover the last body from Didcot power station because the area was unsafe. i think it will be a long slow process before they can go back in and search some more.
 

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With old buildings like these (made in the 1970s) the residents should be given temporary accommodation while the whole block is demolished and rebuilt to modern safety standards. Im sure there are probably a lot of council owned flats/blocks that are probably even older than the one that was on fire.

At least this is what it should of been done in a perfect world
 

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With old buildings like these (made in the 1970s) the residents should be given temporary accommodation while the whole block is demolished and rebuilt to modern safety standards. Im sure there are probably a lot of council owned flats/blocks that are probably even older than the one that was on fire.

At least this is what it should of been done in a perfect world

The highly flammable cladding was placed on the tower block at the request of the other residents of Kensington to make it look less ghastly to their eyes. The documentation on the cladding states "aesthetics" as it's primary purpose. It was made of metal and exceedingly flammable insulation. They then placed insulation as a "secondary" purpose to make it look like they were doing the residents a solid. Nearly every resident had their windows open on the night of the fire because it was so warm, so the flames pretty much leapt into every apartment as the cladding went up like a Christmas tree.

(The company that organised adding the cladding put forward a statement saying it met health and safey and fire regulations. Less than an hour later they retracted the statement and deleted the "fire regulations" part of it.)

They update the death toll today - there were around 150 flats, many of which had families living in them. That puts the resident count to at least 400-500, and not that many people were rescued. Take away the people who managed to escape down the single set of stairs, and the figure of the dead probable sits in the triple figures. I hope the rich people of Kensington are pleased with themselves that their complaints of an ugly building assured the unncessary deaths of possible hundreds of people, in the richest city in the UK, in 2017.

There's also word that the block went under a "£10 million refurbishment", but many of the residents were unaware any refurbishment took place. You have to wonder where all that money went.
 
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So where is the heck is Europe :)

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