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Julia and Bonnie in the Bahamas…….

Years ago my better half and I used to go to a swap meet kind of thing they do in the summer every weekend. Fairly large that fills a school and spills to the outside around it, they held it once a week or so in a neighboring city. You would have people with stands from vintage watches to tools and equipment to video games and books and dvds. (Side bar I bought my last pair of hockey skates there nearly brand new ) Randomly I overheard a little old lady complaining to her husband noone had bought any of the Wild West books this year since they had been coming. My ears perked up and I asked her to recommend one to me as Ive always loved Wild West stuff. She was so happy and in the end recommended a book I took home but I cant for the life of me remember the name off the top of my head...ill post later when I get home and look.

I’m bald. But I’m not that bald. @MUFC

At the time I hadn't really picked up reading again yet. I dont know why but the thought of a WildWest book never really crossed my mind either. The vast majority of books I used to read where murder mysteries... Alot of James Patterson books and the last series I read was The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo before taking a long hiatus. I really should read it at some point but im knee's deep in The Witcher series now that will take me a bit

Now I'm on this song

I was just singing this song to myself not five minutes ago!

When using the PC a lot started get pains in my fingers. I am sensitive to wi-fi and Smart tech etc (childhood head injury) and eventually realised the laser in modern computer mice could give me pain in the fingers. I taped a bit of aluminium foil over the top where the gap is and so far so good.

Talking about contemporary Wild West books, I found this one pretty fascinating: It's like a gritty spaghetti Western, but in a novel form

Oh for sure, that's the kind of criticism I could understand and agree with Either way, people loved Karl May's books not because he was some kind of literary genius, but because it was cool, fun, adventurous, and also morally right. This is what annoys me the most about the recent criticism; reading the things they complain about and accuse him of, it's pretty clear that they have never read a single book of his Because it really baffles me how can you otherwise accuse a writer of racism and colonialism, when literally the very first chapter of Winnetou is a monologue about the horrible and unjust genocide committed against the Native Americans by the seemingly superior White Man; the theme which is present in all of his Wild West works, not to mention the general themes of equality of all races, mixed marriages, pacifism and choosing non-violence, anti-colonialism and sympathising with the plight of Native Americans (and Mexicans), friendship and forgiveness. If anything, Karl May was way ahead of his time, especially compared to the general attitudes and fictional works about the Native Americans in the US at that time and decades after it...

Would be a fairer criticism of Karl May's books than the one they apparently preferred. Have to admit loved Karl May books as a child and still own about 30 of them ,though.

What do you mean, "one book"? I would have cleaned the whole stand! Nah, Wild West books are good stuff. Even the pulpy stuff; all those old magazines full of cliches, one dimensional characters and repeating storylines Just pure fun.

Might be spam. And now they've cleaned out your bank account and on the way to the Bahamas...

Just received a text message, obviously, whoever has texted the wrong number, I replied and they never replied back, I wonder why?

Happy with it. Seems like the signing we'd usually make. Young, hungry, potential to improve and potentially high resale value...

Me too

I really wish there wasn't this hostility between supporters and that posters would adhere to football chat, tactics and predictions etc. I really don't see the usefulness of all this abuse. Call me a prude or whatever you like and I know I don't have to read it but Orange, I've read football sense from you so why not keep it like that?

Some picture here from the bike racing over here last week.

Yea, and he was one of those people who in the 90s already seemed quite old to me. So I wouldn't have thought he was still alive in 2022.

Women in Japan will have to get their partner's consent to get a birth control pill. They've been introducing weird incentives and laws due to the falling birth rates in the country. It really is a crisis, numbers are crazy. I should probably go there and help them.

Went to a new restaurant/skybar in Milton Keynes last night. 1 year Indian wedding anniversary on Monday so went out last night to celebrate

Been a while TFF/TF365. One of many things I’ve been up to since I last spoke to you all. At my sisters wedding walking her down the aisle. Proud moment thinking of the old man.

This takes me back a bit... Thanks to @Spike who had them in the Album Cover Art thread...

Well you made it an England Germany comparison by bringing an English relegation candidate at a German section thread, not about them and comparing them to an German top club. And preacing your comment "I'm not downplaying the Bundesliga" was the same as preprefacing the sentence: " All male Blacks are drug users and criminals." with the comment: "I'm not racist, but"

I thought that was you in drag, Phil, at first?