grimrund.bsky.social
Maison de maître normandie gîtes.
Goat rescuer.
Biker.
EM pinball restorer and collector.
Environmentalist.
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As someone who's radically modified their opinions and diet, all I see here is needless cruelty, suffering and the death of a sentient creature for something someone doesn'tdoesn't need to eat.
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Bastard, he said I could have it - and that's true.
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Good. Surely humanity should have by now moved forward from profiting from killing.
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Well, he's an ex-bootneck so will be seen by the intellectually-challenged as a "patriot" - maybe they'll blame PTSD ...
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No doubt the wannabe rioters, thwarted by his ethnicity, will blame PTSD as Doyle's a former bootneck and obviously a "true patriot" ...
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McDonald's is disgusting.
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"Former producer with GB News"(sic).
Say no more!
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Yes, best festivals were the early ones - even I was too young but Weeley Down is one I'd have enjoyed - Reading '78 was the best I attended. Hell's Angels and exploding oil drums during the night - excellent!
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If they offer me one (obviously in reciprocation for their outstanding holiday at La Maison Ruth or La Calècherie in beautiful, rural Normandy), you're welcome to it. I have no desire to go - take it back to the original Glastonbury Fayre days and I'll change my mind.
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As I mentioned to someone else, it's whether the comportment of the individual is acceptable - there's a vast difference between that oaf and a 70-year-old having a quick wazz behind LeClerc before he goes to buy some sandpaper.
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I was usually able to get through without the full vehicle search but always allowed a window for delays.
The irony of the words printed on British passports didn't escape me - and Border Control weren't impressed when they were quoted to them.
Regularly.
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Pre-Brexit, I used to make my own deliveries of antiques to the UK from France. I'd think nothing of travelling hundreds of miles, making multiple drops and being within 15 minutes of my schedule to get back for the ferry - I was only late once, due to Border Control at Portsmouth.
The irony.
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Try getting your head round driving that distance in a 25 year old diesel van ...
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I've driven up to 2,000km in one day in France and can assure you there's not always any option but to simply stop for 2 minutes at the side of the road.
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I thought you had no experience of life in France, so how do you know how there are "usually enough service stops"?
How many are there between Cherbourg and St Lo? Between Caen and Rennes?
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When I've been driving for several hours and am in desperate need, I have no problem with stopping when the opportunity presents; that is a matter of road safety as being distracted while driving is undesirable, 68€ fine or not. However, it's common practice here and nobody I've met has an issue.
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I'm astounded by your assumption that town streets and country lanes have urinoir every few metres.
There are, for example, 160 public lavatories in Grand Lyon that has 1.37 million inhabitants.
However, you're missing my point; it is the comportment of the person, not the "offence".
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No, they're goats.
Come and see them while you enjoy the orchards during your stay, maybe with a glass of cider made with apples from these very trees pressed on the 19th Century pressoir ...
It could become addictive, this self promotion, so I'd better stop!
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Oh, is that why men of all ages are seen urinating, often before entering shops, every day here?
I've lived in France for 23 years and have yet to see anyone arrested or hear of anyone arrested for having a pee.
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Strangely, it's accepted in France that people need to urinate and nobody bats an eyelid.
Maybe it's because nobody thinks it's an issue.
How it's done is, of course, important.
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We have nice scenery and dates available for breaks in rural Normandy.
Remember, you said self-promotion at every opportunity was important - so have a look at my La Maison Ruth and La Calècherie page.
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"Patriots", in reality, are just intellectually-challenged oafs who are overwhelmed by peer pressure.
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Wouldn't it be the ideal opportunity to have a program embedded in the control system?
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Out of polite interest, wouldn't anyone who wasn't iredeemably stupid not understand without having to let it "sink in"?
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That's distasteful, however one looks at it.
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"Think"?
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Basse-Normandie, so geographically close but a different world.
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People actually voted for that ireddemably ill-informed, stupid, screeching imbecile.
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Only 3?
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Are they waterproof?
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I'm not convinced that's in the "Art of Statesmanship" handbook.
Maybe the abridged version.
Like "Statesmanship for Twats" or similar.
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I'm tempted but I'm following 38 people, most of whose posts I don't see - and I have 36 followers who don't see mine.
I don't know, advise me.
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It's similar to wanting to live in a rural location in a big house with separate house for the staff and several acres within easy reach of centres of employment in France; in a similarly desirable part of England you're looking at a couple of million. In France, maybe a third of that ...
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Nice infantile même, or whatever you want to call it.
Your impression of me is far better than mine of you.
Adios.
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Oh, for fuck's sake. Not another mindless "educate" me, us, whatever response.
Finite resources. Perpetual growth? Does that give you a clue?
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You miss my point.
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Why is growth important? Perpetual growth is not viable or desirable.
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When the last missile is launched and the last person dies, where will the profit in arms sales be?
Short-sighted, really.
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It simply endows greater ability to negate the efforts people make to live a more environmentally-sympathetic, sustainable life.
My carbon footprint is below 30% of my country's average.
I don't know why I bother.
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I fucked off 23 years ago and have seen Britain transform. Brexit cost me £100k and a business.
Occasionally driving in Britain I was abused because my vehicle had "forrin" registration.
Twice attempts by builders in white vans to force me off the M6.
One of my better choices.
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They'd be perfect for Olive Oyl.
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"Nobody knows more about lifting invisible weights than me".
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Van der Graaf Generator, Trisector.