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Moening GG
Good morrow, Gentlefolk, today’s story
Tales of ‘Frisco Bay
The day after a man lost his wife in a scuba diving accident, he was greeted by two grim-faced policemen at his door. “We’re sorry to call on you at this hour, Mr. Wilkins, but we have some information about your wife.”
“Well, tell me!” the man said.
The policeman said, “We have some bad news, some good news, and some really great news. Which do you want to hear first?”
Fearing the worse, Mr. Wilkins said, “Give me the bad news first.”
So the policeman said, “I’m sorry to tell you, sir, but this morning we found your wife’s body in San Francisco Bay.”
“Oh my god!” said Mr. Wilkins, overcome by emotion. Remembering what the policeman had said, he asked, “What’s the good news?”
“Well,” said the policeman, “when we pulled her up she had two five-pound lobsters and a dozen good size Dungeness crabs on her.”
“If that’s the good news, then what’s the great news?” Mr. Wilkins demanded. The policeman said,“We’re going to pull her up again tomorrow morning.”
Yuk!
Yes, Richard, but rather funny.
Good morning, chums. Weather forecast is dry here until around 5 pm, so I will be able to do a bit more in the garden today. I have until 1.30 pm when I leave the house for another event. See you all later.
Weather forecast here is dry until lunchtime. Skies opened at 6am.
I hope the forecast is correct, as our builder chappie is doing the final touches to the top floor window.
We need the final coat of paint to dry.
I hope he managed to do the job before the rain fell, Annie.
Good Morning Folks
cloudy start here
Did Keir Starmer’s speech amount to a convincing plan for the country?
Yes, it’s they are carrying on with the globalist agenda but with no more mister nice guy
377571+ up ticks,
Morning Each,
Wednesday 11 October: Did Keir Starmer’s speech amount to a convincing plan for the country?
O it most certainly did, and by that very fact lessons should be
learnt, hitler was a good patter merchant as was b liar the phantom of the park toilet cum PM.
But in the United Kingdom we have the worlds greatest suckers contained within the electorate when it comes to listening to, and believing in political tall stories and manifestos.
BTL Comment:-
Morning everyone.
All that glitters is not gold – instead, it looks like there will a heavy load on the shoulders of the one who aspires to be next prime minister but he should get a big hand at the end of his speech anyway.
Morning all.
377571+ up ticks,
Of a founder member of the lab/lib/con coalition without doubt.
Archaeologists find fresco of three-headed beast in ‘untouched’ Roman tomb
Exploration team describe ‘incredible emotion’ of being first people to enter burial chamber near Naples in over 2,000 years
Good morning all. I’m up early for a change!
11½°C outside and it’s chucking it down and forecast to continue for the day.
Off with t’Lad to Statfold Barn Country Park, he’s doing a bit of research into Greenwood & Batley, the old Leeds company who made narrow gauge mining locos and battery powered industrial trucks and Statfold apparently has a lot of the old GreenBat records he wants to go through and photograph.
Who is Keir Starmer? A man without charisma or policies. 11 October 2023.
What to make of the big conference speech in the end? Too much rhetorical optimism, not enough real meat.
My own opinion of Starmer is that he is a dyed in the wool Globalist Stooge. He would tell you black was white if he thought it would advantage him in any way. All his promises can be ignored; what we are going to get is Immigration and Woke ideology without limitation.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/10/10/who-is-keir-starmer-a-man-without-charisma-or-policies/
I had the misfortune to see him on television yesterday evening at the Labour Party Conference.
I was astonished by how very dull he looked and how exceptionally monotonous and uninspiring his speaking voice is. He must be one of the most boring people in politics. There was one thing that did surprise me – his wife looked rather attractive – how on earth did she fall for a dolt like Keir Starmer?
…how on earth did she fall for a dolt like Keir Starmer?
I think that she is his handler Richard!
How much societal destruction will be needed and how long will it take to bulldoze away the ruins of our present civilisation so that new foundations can be laid for the Magnificent New World Order built back so much better than the civilisation our forefathers produced?
Starmer will soon be the UK site manager and he has already assembled a woke-force of Labourers to get going on the project!
Not a lot more – we are most of the way there already.
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I suspect the glitter stunt was just that; a stunt to make Sir Kneeler seem statesmanlike and unflappable.
BTL Comments appear to agree with you:-
Grumpy Old Cow
2 HRS AGO
Sir Kneeler was fortunate his glitter protester was not pouring acid or knifing him. How did security allow anyone to get that close to him?
JSO are daft, glitter is usually made of plastic. EDITED
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They let him get close because that’s what their instructions were. This nonsense was simply a little pantomime.
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So, an advanced form of attention seeking behaviour to show how cool he is under pressure?
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I was talking to an elderly friend yesterday evening. A lifelong Labour supporter (and former member) and for many years a regular at Labour and TUC Conferences. It was her opinion that the event was staged. Seems like you can fool some of the people some of the time but not all of the people all of the time.
Anastasias Revenge
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The so-called “glitter attack” would have been much more appropriate if it was orange powder instead of silver glitter. After all, Sir Kneeler supports all that baloney.
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Morning AR – from where I sit this little bit of nonsense looked remarkably like a set-up job to me.but then “cynic” is my middle name.
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Morning Steve – it STANK of “set-up! Unfettered access to a political leader for quite a few seconds, free to scatter glitter or stab repeatedly. Starmer’s body language was ‘unfraid’ – he didn’t even crouch or lean away. No attempt to brush and ‘unknown’ substance from his hair either. HE KNEW!
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David Hollway
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Oooh, you ARE a cynic. “Look, Middle England! I’m so onside with your hopes and fears that those nasty XR protesters are protesting against ME too!”
(slips fiver to XR and after wagging finger sternly at the glitter protester for the news cameras, shakes his hand and kneels to him once off-camera)
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I learned from the ‘best’ (hence the name). Never knew her to be wrong in 16+ years.
I mis-read your “kneels to him” as “knees him” (a much more appropriate reaction to ‘threat’).
Just look at the main picture – he has had glitter land on him (could have been anything) and HE IS SMILING! EDITED
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David I am so much a cynic that I bet it was a lot more than a bloody fiver mate…….😁
You cannot polish a turd but you can roll it in glitter.
You cannot polish a turd but you can roll it in glitter.
‘Woke without end
Amen’
Morning Minty and all.
377571+ up ticks,
As in a prior post, forget electric cars & heat pumps the coming “must have” commodity will be the safe room.
Residents emerge from safe rooms to face grim aftermath of Hamas attack
Locals encounter cars riddled with bullets and demolished buildings during a dash for supplies amid fears of further hostilities
After a long,long run of dangerous fools supporting a “party before Country ” voting policy in the selection from proven treacherous parties,the above could very well be
a daily London routine.
Tell me i’m wrong, please tell me i’m wrong.
Morning, ogga.
Who would you suggest?
377571+ up ticks,
Morning Anne,
Not “who” but what.
The lab/lib/con are as one in my book, a coalition party.
For the last three plus decades this coalition party has been pro eu, preferring eu interment to UK freedom.
Personally I would mass build on the
FOX / Bridgen duo and the Reclaim
party.
Proven criminal insanity lies in, in this instance, supporting an anti UK coalition again & again that has killed,seriously maimed,orchestrated
covered up long term paedophilia (rotherham plus) that is still ongoing via Dover.
Listed are some of the coalitions nicer points
.
Morning Ogga ,
Perhaps we should ask Hungary and Poland how they cope ?
377571+up ticks,
Morning TB,
I worked in Po;and when there was two Russians behind every tree.
I think Poles govern Poles with little foreign influence, good peoples.
It’s official – Best selling wine at the conference in Liverpool
Labourfraumilch
Very sweet but leaves you with nasty hangover.
Key European gas pipeline damaged amid suspicions of Russian sabotage. 11 October 2023.
A leak that led to the shutdown of a gas pipeline connecting Finland and Estonia was most likely caused by “external activity”, Finland’s president has said, amid speculation that the supply line was sabotaged by Russia.
The 48-mile-long Balticconnector link between the two Nato countries had to be shut down at around 2am on Sunday following an unusual drop in pressure.
“It is likely that damage to both the gas pipeline and the communication cable is the result of external activity,” Sauli Niinisto said on Tuesday.
Strange, it was only damaged three days ago and they already know who it was. The Baltic Pipelines were blown up a year ago and official ignorance still abounds!
The pipeline itself connects the Finnish and Estonian Gas grids across the Gulf of Finland, giving the Finns access to an underground storage facility in Latvia. It is a mutually beneficial arrangement and poses no threat or gives advantage to anyone else. Its destruction would in no way benefit Russia or affect Russian gas production or export. An act of sabotage would, in fact, as here, draw down suspicion and accusations with no discernible gain for it.
False Flag or Fake Accusation? Take your pick.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/10/10/gas-pipeline-damage-finland-estonia-sabotage-russia/
I remember photos of a bubbly Baltic some time back.
Who Blew NS2?
The only words I can think of rhyming with Balticconnector are vector or director!
It’s not funny though – for how long is the US going to get away with ruining people’s lives in wars, funding terrorist attacks and destroying infrastructure? What an evil, destructive way to run the world.
Wednesday 11th October 2023
Hardcastle Craggs
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and many joyous returns,
With best wishes
from Caroline and Rastus
and here is a picture of Hardcastle Crags in West Yorkshire!
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It’s a long time since we have heard from Craggy!
Is anyone in touch with him? I hope he will return to the Forum – his posts are always worth reading.
Many happy returns, Hardcastle Craggs, wherever you are!
Grattis på födelsedagen, HC. Hope you are well. 👍🏻🎂🥃😊
Happy Birthday HC – have a good day
HB HC, hope you’re enjoying your day.
Happy birthday, Hardcastle.
– Rumour has it that someone parked an EV in there
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Good morning, all. Very grey sky – rain on way. Strong wind blowing. Not a very nice looking day.
G’morning all,
Cloudy start at McPhee Towers but sunny spells later, wind in the Sou’-West, 11℃ with 20℃ forecast.
Uh-oh:
Luton Airport’s lovely new multi-storey car park
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/10/10/luton-airport-fire-terminal-car-park/
A tenner says it was started by an EV battery exploding.
Exactly my reaction.
I wonder how the authorities will wriggle out of stifling that information if we are right?
They just won’t tell us!
Yes but enough people know about EVs now to keep asking very awkward questions.
I do hope so!
Oh, man, what a mess.
Happened at Stavanger airport 3 or so years ago. Carpark a total writeoff.
Good morrning FM
I wonder how many fires are caused by battery explosions ?
G’morning all,
Cloudy start at McPhee Towers but sunny spells later, wind in the Sou’-West, 11℃ with 20℃ forecast.
Uh-oh:
Luton Airport’s lovely new multi-storey car park
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/10/10/luton-airport-fire-terminal-car-park/
A tenner says it was started by an EV battery exploding.
Good Moaning.
Angela Epstein in the DM.
She is not impressed.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12616467/ANGELA-EPSTEIN-Emma-Thompson-Gary-Lineker-evils-Hamas.html
Right, about to bugger off to pick up t’Lad, but a letter and BTL response:-
Good morning, all. Overcast and dry here at the moment. Like, Elsie, I will have some time in the garden before the rain appears.
Man on a bridge over the A12 causes total gridlock of Colchester yesterday afternoon. Rather, it was the police force’s reaction for the man’s welfare that caused total chaos i.e. closing completely the A12 both north and south bound and funnelling masses of traffic on to an inadequate road system.
Just after 2pm I encountered very slow stop/start traffic one mile from my home and thinking ‘roadworks’, I took a quick detour. However, I soon came upon even more traffic at a standstill coming out from the town, I thought, lucky me, I was heading in the opposite direction, and took another detour. It was at this point my luck ran out, a long and very slow moving queue heading out of town to the west.
As I crawled along the local BBC station informed me that, ‘due to an incident many miles away’ on the A12, the north of the town was gridlocked. I live on the southern border of the town and I was heading west but still in the south and I was close to gridlock.
Some time later another chance of a detour that would leave me about half a mile from the country lane that would take me away from the chaos, the alternative was a two mile crawl to the lane. More slow moving traffic at the end of the detour but my escape route was just off the roundabout that was now in sight.
Eventually reached the roundabout but it was under police control as they fed traffic off the A12 onto the old A12. The police officer nearest to me, about 75 yards away, gestured that I should re-join the crawling traffic. I gestured back that I wanted to go to the right and he made a strange gesture back and then walked over to me. I told him I wanted to turn off into Spring Lane/ Bakers Lane and he explained his gesture – a golf swing, there is a club along the lane I wanted. He was very understanding and directed me to park on some chevrons and wait to be fed to my exit of choice by a fellow officer.
Shortly, I was on my way but the lane was being used as a rat-run by drivers heading towards me who had left the A12 at a junction many country lane miles away. However, I was clear away until I reached my destination, a village north of Colchester, I entered the village and found more gridlock as drivers from the A12 were doing what I had done i.e. use the lanes as a detour. They were heading for more gridlock and I, after crawling for ten minutes to travel a couple of hundred yards, was at my destination.
Quite a saga, I saw a cyclist being rammed from behind at a set of traffic lights, some understanding drivers giving way but many more selfish and inconsiderate people: all this and more because of a man on a bridge some miles away. Surely, there must be a better way to deal with these incidents?
I got caught in that. The area round Sainsbury’s is always pretty chaotic, so I paid little attention until I tried to detour through Eight Ash Green. No go. Tried West Bergholt. Forget it.
I was trying to get to our son’s house off Mill Road to let out the dogs and take them for a walk. It took me an hour to get there. Poor things were quickly chucked out into the garden and that was it.
This was around midday. Colchester was still jammed when our son left work near the university at 5.0 pm.
He discovered a scenic route to get to Holbrook.
My Spring/Bakers Lane detour got me to Bergholt Rd and the road was clear. It was in Gt Horkesley, from the nasty bend in Coach Rd on the Bergholt end of the village, that I hit trouble again. Well over an hour to make a normal 15 minutes journey. Those people detouring through the lanes were only heading for more trouble.
So I discovered when I reached Argents Lane.
I used Mile End Road from the North Station roundabout. That was certainly better.
Argents Lane? You are one brave lady for taking that route. I avoid that stretch of road like the plague. However, yesterday’s disaster would have overcome my dread of negotiating the lane.
One is tempted to ask why the plod didn’t push him off the bridge… A helping hand, as it were…
When I finally reached home and discovered the cause, my sympathies were …. I think ‘non-existent’ is the expression that comes to mind.
These people will try this over and over again, until some poor train or lorry driver gets a shock that finishes his mind and his career.
‘Surely, there must be a better way to deal with these incidents?’
Sniper.
Right, that’s me off!
TTFN all.
From the letters:
SIR – Mark Carney’s endorsement of Rachel Reeves as a potential chancellor of the Exchequer (report, October 10) is powerful but also disgraceful.
He is, of course, entitled to his views on economic policy, but to lavish praise so publicly on an individual MP in the run-up to a general election is surely an abuse of his position as a former governor of the Bank of England, a supposedly politically neutral appointment.
Jonathan Rush
Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire
It should, of course, be the kiss of death given Carney’s involvement with the WEF and the parasitic predator class.
Especially a twerp like Rachel Reeves. For leaders, they keep offering us supermarket trolleys and telling us they’re Rolls Royces.
That’s all they have.
What a wonderful expression.
You should meet her in person !
Good morning all.
Dull mild morning here , sort of morning where one needs to switch on some lights . Low grey cloud , slight breeze . 17c
Last night , one of our roads was being repaired and resurfaced , we were all warned , the evidence , 3 porta loos placed on a country lane , and then the rumble all night off heavy machinery PATCHING up a long stretch
I read the DT letters, and picked up on this comment .
Trevor Anderson
20 MIN AGO
Typical BBC: I try not to watch BBC Breakfast, overpaid autocue readers who can only ask prepared questions. Sally Nugent interiewing Grant Shapps: “An Israeli General has described Hamas as animals. What do you think of statements like that?” To be fair, Shapps answered well and made sure that under no uncertain terms, Hamas are terrorists, and none of the BBC excuses for describing them.
However, I would have asked Ms Nugent how she would feel if something similar has happened to her family.
I guess BBC people have forgotten the London Blitz and other damage to our cities and our reprisals …Dresden etc
Oh I forgot , drat , the BBC are more focussed on Black History Month .
Dark here and it’s been raining. We had a power cut in the night but something had tripped our main switch.
Sunny start augers well for a nice day here – outside jobs beckoning
Good morning.
Regarding road repairs. The cul de sac i live in is to be fully closed for 3 days for resurfacing works. One of those days is bin collection day. I do hope none of my very elderly neighbours needs an ambulance.
Hallo Pip! Good to see you. I trust that after your scare yesterday that you are OK? Did you get blood test?
Hello JR. Yes thanks.
The priority appointment was for today which they cancelled within an hour of making it due to staff illness. I had to go through an nhs portal to make another and none were available and it told me to call the surgery. Went through all that rigmarole of queuing and having my brain anaesthetised from repetitive dull recordings for half an hour. Which was somewhat better than the 55 minutes i had to wait in the morning.
They managed to squeeze me in yesterday at 1.30.
The good news is my Dr booked an appointment for an ultrasound yesterday morning and unbelievably i got the letter for the appointment this morning.
I doubt though that any operation needed will be done as swiftly.
Thanks for asking.
How are things with you? Coping?
Well, very good outcome for you, I’m pleased.
As for me. About to take medication that will knock me out for a couple of hours so bracing for that, it is always unpleasant. other than that I’m actually having a rare good day. Just did my M & S home delivery and GOD I’m so bloody decedent on the food front! But at least from M & S it tends to be good food. I have latched on to smoothies, never tried them until last week, delicious.
She could have asked Shapps “Over the past 5 years, how many Hamas suporters/members do you think have arrived in the UK”?
SIR – I listened with increasing frustration to Sir Keir Starmer’s
speech at the Labour Party conference, desperately wanting to hear real,
positive policies backed up by a clear and structured plan.
Instead I simply heard a list of hopeful targets, each greeted with a standing ovation but lacking in supporting detail.
Our future is bleak indeed when neither of the main parties has a long-term
plan – let alone a strategy – for growing the economy.
John Kelsall
Fressingfield, Suffolk
What makes you think they wish to grow the economy, John. There are many things they and the Tories could have done but did the opposite. More taxation everywhere.
How are you this dreary morning?
More settled which probably means tomorrow is going to be a bugger. Good days and bad days.
All the labour band wagon ever do is, know everything and all the answers in hindsight, encourage more immigration, more votes for a free life. And fish for votes.
Stamer and his Dopey Wokey deputy are miles apart with their predicted house building programmes.
Yesterday he said 1.5 million, last week she said 150.000.
Morning, Dolly’s Dad.
How are you this morning?
Perkier thanks.
Their idea of growth is higher taxes.
It’s getting worse quickly. Allegedly the Egypt land exit was hit after Israel suggested people should use it to leave.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12616459/Israel-Hamas-war-threatens-engulf-Middle-East-projectiles-fired-Syria-salvoes-exchanged-Lebanons-Hezbollah-airstrikes-hit-land-exit-Gaza-Egypt.html
This last is my bold and italics. Just what does this bastard think Hamas Iran et all want to do to Israel???
Israel is going to burn up international sympathy and good will very rapidly.
Their response is understandably savage.
I think it would not matter so much if anti-semitism was not so integral in islam, thus bringing the conflict to the whole western world (thanks to years of treachery bringing a religion that most of us actively reject to our countries). It will never be a local conflict, and they don’t want it to be either – both sides want our unquestioning support.
But the Israelis cannot accept that if they bring the rest of the world into their local conflict, then we have the right to criticise how it’s conducted.
It cannot be a global conflict. It must be dealt with locally. However the repercussions for breaking the peace must be global.
Hamas, for example have bank accounts. Freeze them. If they break the peace, the international community responds with force – immediately. But our poolitical (sic) class are spineless and weak and won’t act together.
If Palestinians and the usual tired rentamob Lefties here get uppity, smack them down hard and get rid of them.
It already is global. We have militant young men parading around our streets.
There are a lot of ways to deal with Hamas that don’t involve starting a world war – guess which one they are going for.
It would be wiser to take out the Hamas head honchos and work down the hierarchy, so they never sleep soundly.
I would imagine Israeli intelligence has every detail on these shiites – including their shoe size – but it looks as if the Israeli politicians were suffering a bout of ‘welbyitis’.
I agree.
However, there is the problem, as we’ve seen from the world-wide celebrations of the Hamas attacks, that there will be plenty to replace those killed. These people will not hesitate to kill people all over the world, and as we’ve seen they are numerous and well placed so to do. And by “these people” I don’t just include Palestinians, but fundamentalist Muslims everywhere.
You cannot eradicate an ideology. They fervently believe what they are doing is good and righteous.
The only thing that’d stop Hamas is a giant hand from space reaching down and crushing them followed by the words, ‘stop it, you miserable b’tards.’
Lebanon used to be a Christian country. Just saying.
Beirut was called the Paris of the ME at one time, not so very long ago.
Why should Israel continue to provide food, fuel and water to a country trying to kill it? Hamas said they would use the pipes intended for water as rockets. They had a choice. They chose wrongly.
Is he being ironic?
Some of you will be getting this in your e-mail today:
When did the Dept for Energy add ‘Net Zero’ to its name?
More to the point, how does this Blairite, neo-constitutional, target-driven hogwash keep the lights on?
When did the Dept for Energy add ‘Net Zero’ to its name? When they Levelled Up, I expect.
They’re going to charge on with this idiotic policy and wanted it recognised in government. The real hope is for a future government to abolish it entirely and restore sanity, but, if they don’t, politicians will be realise how stupid they are.
Government responded:
Drop dead Serfs!
What bollocks!
How can an energy system be secure when it will be dependent on unknown and uncontrollable variables i.e. the Sun shining and the wind blowing?
In addition the sites of these ‘secure’ systems are spread out over open countryside, not enclosed in much smaller sites that can be secured by guards etc. The anti-ULEZ Bladerunners show what can be done and they’re operating in a city with surveillance. Will anyone save us from these fools?
When the lights do finally go out the political class will realise just how stupid they were as, inn broad daylight I shall wander over to their homes and hang them.
Their phones won’t work, the police won’t be able to get to them, no one will help them. All the money stolen from workers now unemployed will be useless as there won’t be power for the datacentres to spend it. Then, swinging happily breathing their last I will say ‘that’s net zero for you.’
‘Up yours, we’ll do what we want’ is far fewer words.
SIR – Yoav Gallant, Israel’s defence minister, is quoted as saying:
“I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no
electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed . . . We are
fighting human animals and we will act accordingly.”
In our horror
at the slaughter in Israel, let us not overlook the terrifying
situation of ordinary Palestinians, who are vulnerable to every attack
by Hamas while also facing bombardment from Israel.
L F Buckland
Iwerne Minster, Dorset
If those ordinary Palestinians are anything like the Palestinians celebrating mass murder and rape across the Western world i won’t lose any sleep over them starving to death.
Well that is just it. The people on the ground are in the firing line. They did have 24 hours warning to escape before their cities were flattened (photos on internet if you want), and frankly, anyone with any sense living in Hamas territory would have a bag permanently packed.
But the loathsome half-wits celebrating rape and slaughter on the streets of Britain have no such fear – on the contrary, they know that they have special protection from our rulers. Their taunts to the native populations who are bombarded with mainstream filth on one side and islamic savagery on the other side, are just part of the run up to WW3.
I keep coming back to why. Why has the state forced so many clearly incompatible people into this country? They don’t work, they’re responsible for most of the crime.
A chum works at a community centre opposite one of those Turkish barbers. He counted about 4 people a day passing through the place. He wonders how they can afford the costs with only at best £1000 coming every month so I told him – it’s a drugs front. This is a small little village now infested with criminality and all from the same demographic.
So that when the financial crash happens, we are occupied fighting islamic invaders. I am not joking.
There were roughly 2 million “Palestinians” in 1947, now there are roughly 15 million, more than half of whom live outside Palestine/Israel.
Most, if not all would like Israel utterly cleansed of Jews; even though it would almost guarantee living conditions there would deteriorate utterly and I doubt that even a tiny percentage of the diaspora would ever return.
I wonder how many of these people have access to rubber boats ?
The invasion has got to stop.
“Had” access, they’re already here in force.
Well as our know nothing government has suggested, all the lovely migrants are not a problem.
If they thought otherwise they would have stopped them.
What a bloody mess politicians make of everyone’s lives.
It’s odd, in my gym class last night there were at least 5 ‘immigrants’. A new Zealander, a Turkish lass, 2 Poles and a Hungarian.
All are decent, lovely people with jobs who complain about everything I do. I’ve worked with Ukrainians, Moldovans, Lithuanians. My best man is Nigerian by heritage, Wandsworth by birth. A childhood friend is Indian.
These people are no problem, and never will be. Yet…. why have we got hundreds of thousands of clearly violent, vicious, spiteful foreigners polluting this country, gabbling a loo and a snack bar? they’re 5-600 years behind us culturally and socially. Why does the state protect them at every turn?
I’m in total agreement Wibbers.
I think it will also be found the type with the neanderthal metal block are usually the problem as they follow the instructions from their ‘religious’ leaders
I had a friend at junior school who’s father was a black American soldier in war time Europe.
Worked with guys from Africa Poland Ireland India (one of the nicest people I have ever met) two Jewish chaps. In South Africa obviously African people, German (one of was particularly nasty) Greek Italian. Scots, didn’t like English.
In Australia a Russian, Italians, Geordies, Kiwis. Always got along with all. But the German boss in Port Elizabeth was a nightmare. I deserted Christmas 1969. Went back to Joeys.
Morning all 🙂😊
Looks like rain and will be raining for three days.
Explosion at the multi story car park at Luton Airport causes a partial collapse of the building. And all flights cancelled.
Passengers stranded and advised to go home.
I wonder how that happened ?
If not a battery fault.
And Starmers speech was offensive.
One of most outstanding points he made was labour are going pushing to build 1.5 million new homes. After his Dopey deputy told us 150,000 were on the cards.
Which one of them is the most stupid ?
In an effort to attract votes, where are they more likely to try and swamp with migrants, who in reality do nothing but take. Probably any surviving Conservative constituency in the green belt areas.
Aye, the cancelled flights annoyed family who were heading off on hols.
It’s the refusal to address *why* more homes are needed, and at such scale. Who will be paying for them? Who will live in them?
It’s all very well building homes, but what about the facilities those homes need? Let’s say 100,000 homes are built, that’s 4 gp surgeries, a hospital a police station, a fire station, a power station, contributing roads, sewerage, a reservoir of water. Our resources are already horribly overstretched. He cannot continue to ignore the elephant in the room. Immigration must stop and be reversed.
I’m sure the labour leader misread the labour intentions for house building. It just show how thick he actually is.
Exactly that is happening in my rural neck of the woods; GP provision is already overstretched, same with dentists, the roads are chock-a-block, there’s no work locally and the drains/sewers are under strain. They have already built several thousand houses and there are getting on for another thousand under construction.
Breaking!!!
Labour scriptwriter sacked for acting as a mole for Richard Tice.
https://twitter.com/reformparty_uk/status/1711769843777654785
Mind you, any recommendation from the likes of Sir Kneeler could have the opposite effect!
‘Morning, Korky.
John Simpson defends BBC’s refusal to describe Hamas as terrorists. 11 October 2023.
Veteran correspondent says using term would mean taking sides and not reporting Israel-Hamas conflict with ‘due impartiality’
Of course not calling Hamas terrorists is taking sides. You have looked at them and decided that they do not deserve this appellation. You have in effect absolved them of any wrong doing! You have decided that beheading people is a norm in ethnic struggles. It’s a typical Cultural Marxist trick where bias is concealed beneath the claim of impartiality.
I don’t actually have any respect for Simpson. I’ve watched his reports on Vladimir Putin and if he isn’t taking sides I’m an Mi6 Troll.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/10/11/john-simpson-defends-bbc-not-calling-hamas-terrorists/
I seem to recall the BBC called out Darren Osborne, who drove a lorry into the Finabury Park mosque, as a terrorist. And the guy who killed Jo Cox. (Whereas I viewed these loners as mentally deranged rather than “terrorists”).
Remember! If it’s a muslim they’re a mentally ill lone wolf. Not a muslim terrorist. If it’s someone against muslim, they’re instantly a Far Right white supremacist terrorist. Got it?
Muslims are the problem as we will soon find out.
We already know, Johnny. It’s the powers that be that need the wake-up call!
The PTB know as well. They just choose to ignore it.
Yes boss🙂
It is not taking sides. The government has already proscribed Hamas as terrorists. They are. It’s also not Israel vs Hamas, it’s Israel vs Palestine.
The BBC ties itself in painful knots trying to avoid the truth.
I have zero respect for John Simpson since I saw footage of him in a taxi in Algeria in the late 90s, and the taxi driver was openly taking the p and Simpson was too stupid to realise that he was being had.
Simpson: something like “Are there terrorists in those hills?”
Taxi Driver: Hundreds of them! (clearly thinking “idiot foreigner wants terrorists, give him terrorists”)
Simpson is totaly biased far left. Horrible person.
Simpson is now 79 years old – he became prematurely senile at the age of 23 and has been intellectually on a downward slide ever since then.
One person’s terrorist is another’s freedom fighter. Look at Nelson Mandela.
John Simpson defends BBC’s refusal to describe Hamas as terrorists. 11 October 2023.
Veteran correspondent says using term would mean taking sides and not reporting Israel-Hamas conflict with ‘due impartiality’
Of course not calling Hamas terrorists is taking sides. You have looked at them and decided that they do not deserve this appellation. You have in effect absolved then of any wrong doing! You have decided that beheading people is a norm in ethnic struggles. It’s a typical Cultural Marxist trick where bias is concealed beneath the claim of impartiality.
I don’t actually have any respect for Simpson. I’ve watched his reports on Vladimir Putin and if he isn’t taking sides I’m an Mi6 Troll.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/10/11/john-simpson-defends-bbc-not-calling-hamas-terrorists/
With the end of the 2023 trout season in view I’ve…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdxYS_zVByg
Marcus Wareing visited a trout farm on the river Test. I found it quite interesting. It’s on iplayer.
Excellent duo!
Coming soon on the office doors in Westminster and Whitehall – they’re out looking for all your personal financial information!
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(Phishing is a type of social engineering attack often used to steal user data, including login credentials and credit card numbers. It occurs when an attacker, masquerading as a trusted entity, dupes a victim into opening an email, instant message, or text message.)
Lammy!
https://twitter.com/yalding1666/status/1711890100420747574/photo/1
A ‘king idiot.
Following the Luton airport multistorey car park fire yesterday, an internet car blogger Geoff (not our Geoff) has made a video this morning commenting on the social media feedback he has received about the incident and how the MSM is dealing with it.
He concludes this is a big setback for EV car sales whilst conceding that there is no evidence.yet as to the cause of the fire:
https://youtu.be/Rs44yW7vOP4?si=tsZ_o5XgeWxUOLo4
Morning Angie. Its pretty certain though that is what caused it! You just have to think of a few million of these things on the road. There would be ten or twenty going off every week!
I hate to say it, but every car – of both types – is a small bomb. My little Ford has 3 such bombs that go off very quickly due to this combustible fuel called petrol.
If an EV has exploded then it’s fairly inevitable that other vehicles will be affected. Equally if a normal car has gone up, an EV is going to be affected. I don’t think this is necessarily related to EVs.
It’s annoying actually. Electric vehicles are fine. I’ve owned a milk float as my main car during my university years. Nothing wrong with them. The problem is because a useless, miserable government has forced them on us the entire technology has been scarred from that.
I haven’t heard of any ICE cars parked and blowing up without some other sort of intervention.
I can’t help thinking it was fortunate it seems to have started on the top rather than the ground floor.
Thanks. I love this guy.
Edit. Did i mention i have been banned from charging my e-bike in work’s basement?
This is news to me.
The MSM e-bike fire reports must have raised alarms at many premises due to realisation of the potential fire risk of charging e-bikes.
It was noted that the Luton car park fire did not start on the EV charging bay floor of the multistorey airport car park.
Whilst it is has become commonly known that a major Chinese EV manufacturer suffers from an inordinately high level of EV fires, EU and UK import standards are higher than Chinese domestic EV standards which focus on low cost rather than safety.
The Fire Chief in charge pointed out that the car park had no sprinklers or other fire protection apparatus.
Is this the right moment to point out that there appears to be no fire protection sprinklers at Heathrow multi-story
car park.
Rhetorical question. Would a sprinkler system stop the spread of fire in such a car park if the car were just a diesel or petrol?
I don’t know Phizzee.
Certainly the absence of fire protection endangers the users of the car park.
Diesel ignites under pressure – if is a far lesser danger than petrol as far as breaking into flames is concerned.
The DM article suggests that if the fire started in the electrical system of a diesel car it soon spread to EVs.
After many people, on the government’s advice, had bought diesel cars for their economy, reliability and because they were told they were environmentally friendly the government decided to piss everyone off by saying that actually diesel cars are very bad for the environment.
How long before the government, which now tells everyone they should buy EVs, decides to change the message and explain that they are not at all good for the environment, they are impractical and subject to spontaneous combustion.
Incidentally, the character in Dickens’s Bleak House who spontaneously burst into flames was a chap called Krook, an alcoholic rag dealer. Nothing of the old man was left except an object looking like a “small charred and broken log of wood.”
All his clothes soaked in alcohol and too near a candle. I don’t believe in spontaneous human combustion without an accelerant.
Yes, you did. Presumably it’s due to the fire risk rather than the use of electricity.
Khan’s latest wheeze, the UALEVFZ, the ultra alight electric vehicle fire zone, is now on the agenda. £500 a day for travelling in London.
All those angry electrons. Like a wasps nest, even down to the buzzing and the stings…
Starmer’s speech was a contradiction. A muddle mis-mash. He said he wanted to created a ‘wealth fund’, would tax non-doms (causing them to leave), wanted to set up GB Energy – rather than restore markets and yet in the same breath states that only the private sector creates wealth.
He can’t have a high tax, big state, controlled economy and say he supports private wealth. But hey, this is Starmer. He’ll have a different set of policies tomorrow.
Country homes and estates are being sold off at the rate of knots in this area .
Many people are selling up and moving to France , and I mean many, and sadly second homes are also on the market.
Little village shops are suffering and have had a very bad summer season despite the deluge of summer visitors .
One small village near here has many second homes , but the death of 6 older residents of the village so far this year has depressed the shop keeper somewhat.
Something to take ones mind off the daily horrors
https://www.takimag.com/article/32214/
This line towards the end appealed as a conclusion:
Like an electric guitarist in the late 1960s, the contemporaries Cervantes and Shakespeare partook of what Harold Bloom called the “intoxication of unprecedentedness.”
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https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/blighted-by-booster-shots-when-will-these-jab-fanatics-wake-up-to-the-truth/
An excellent BTL from Simon Stephenson
I think that the answer is that most people have as their most powerful subconscious urge the need to be perceived as being “normal”. They’re not really aware that they have a choice to be free individuals instead, because to them there is no such choice – being a free individual carries the certainty that they will quickly become regarded as “unreliable” or “contrarian” by the groups of people that they have spent their lives seeking to reassure of their personal normality.
And so they’ll never deviate from whatever is “acceptable” mainstream behaviour, because, deep down, what terrifies them more than anything else is the thought of being shunned by mainstream society.
And apart from anything else, for people of unexceptional talent and intelligence, career and material progress in society has overwhelmingly been more easily obtained by rigid conformity than by thinking independently, and acting accordingly.
My own BTL
My wife (aged 60) and I (aged 76) were advised by Françoise, our doctor in France not to have the Covid jabs. I had had a mild stroke 10 years ago and my wife has Coeliac Disease – an auto-immune disease. We decided to take her advice.
In February 2022 I felt a bit ill so a nurse came to visit me to see if I had Covid. I had. I went to bed, had a good sleep and got up the following morning hale and hearty again. My wife was not unwell but she decided to have the test too as the nurse was there; she too tested positive but she was not ill at all.
At the same time several of our friends and family members, all of whom were fully jabbed, got Covid – they were all quite ill and some of them had to take to their beds for a full week.
Collateral damage: our very dear and very good doctor was sacked for giving her patients dangerous advice.
I am afraid that the medical profession and the political establishment have too much blood on their hands to ever admit that they were wrong no matter how many more deaths and life-changing illnesses result from the Covid jabs.
Yesterday early afternoon, prior to my dally with the local traffic gridlock, I called into the pharmacy to collect my prescription. I was dismayed to see so many old folk sitting and standing around waiting to be inoculated. A younger looking lady also had an appointment, perhaps she has a morbidity that the medical shamans believe requires shoring up by the potion.
I have acquaintances who have received 5 and 6 boosters: remarkable that smart, and they are smart in many other ways, keep falling for the propaganda.
The other members of the ‘Monday Club’ in my local were all chatting about their forthcoming jab appointments. One did ask, whether out of politeness or curiosity, if I was going to attend. On being told that I wasn’t our evening continued as normal.
I’m sure they think I’m just being contrary but I have neither the time or crayons to point out the excess deaths, vaccine injuries or the fact that HCQ and ivermectin are now permitted to be used once again; long after indemnity and huge profits had been secured under the ’emergency’ powers, as there was no ‘off the shelf’ remedy.
Good morning to all. Gloomy day but no rain yet. I see that here it is going to start this evening and then non-stop through Sunday. I posted a site yesterday that I use concerning Israel and anti-Semitism. Here is another site that I use and that is also well worth keeping a hold of.
MEMRITV
https://www.memri.org/tv
Produces good insights into the depraved outlook of Islam and all its works. The wicked mentality of Muslims toward Jews and other non Muslims is made abundantly clear and shows Islam for what it is, a depraved ideology, as evil if not more so, than Communism or its fellow traveller Naziism.
Clearly we’ve got all your rain, johnathan!
And it’s being ramped up again.
Are there no sane heads in the region?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12617621/Israeli-official-calls-Doomsday-missile-shakes-Middle-East-used-response-Hamas-attacks-despite-nation-never-openly-admitting-having-nuclear-weapons.html
And another, this time an American Senator
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12617371/Its-time-terror-state-pay-price-Senator-Lindsey-Graham-calls-America-Israel-bomb-Iranian-oil-fields-hostages-killed-Hamas-blasts-Iran-building-terror-group.html
The Israelis are going to bomb Gaza to extinction in revenge for the Hamas outrage.
The difference between the Israeli bombing and the Hamas bombing is that the Israelis have warned the people in Gaza what they are going to do to give them time to get out. Hamas deliberately targeted innocent children in their unannounced attack.
I expect that Hamas will do their best to stop the Palestinians who want to leave straight away from leaving as the more Palestinians who die the better Hamas will like it as it will be good propaganda for the people such as Simpson and Bowen at the BBC – not to mention Corbyn and lefties everywhere.
If you need martyrs and your enemy wants to warn them to escape then you’ll have to stop them escaping and effectively kill them yourselves!
Israel – when it’s finished with Gaza should warn Egypt – t’s next.
Another embarrassment for Notwork Rail.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/f65f632ca2a4a9b8234c91d7ad688eb9d787c858c0e183784bf101ba8286f0a1.jpg
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-67068967
https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/engineers-undertake-urgent-work-on-crumbling-historic-rail-viaduct-in-northumberland-10-10-2023/
“An investigation by New Civil Engineer, published in July, found that over 500 structures on the rail network have not been inspected in over five years.”
Wrong sort of….everything.
Those dreadful Victorians, you know.
Is that when BoB retired?
Yeah. It’s all Bob’s fault !
Its all gone to pot since he gave up life on the lines.
Those pictures, released soon after this happened, show it far worse than it really is. Routine engineering work had been going on there over last weekend so the left hand rails had been removed as part of that. The parapet wall fell away, possibly due to the works, and what you see is a huge pile of ballast. The underlying bridge structure is we are told pretty sound, trains are currently allowed over the other side with a 50mph speed restriction so they must have some confidence in the structure. Fixing it of course is something else.
RailForums and last nights local BBC TV news gave a better analysis than NCE and the BBC website report (link above).
The headline is dishonest. It should read “Crowd cheers as Israeli flag is hurled to the ground.”
I expect the plod helped them. There are enough slammers in the perlice farce, these days.
By design as well; DIE versity, dontcha no?
980 in the Met. Goodness knows how many in other forces.
“Crowd”? Who was in this “crowd”? Random passers-by?
Don’t know why he bothered. All town halls will be flying ISIS flags before long.
Trust this bastard to stick his oar in:
“Israel is not conducting itself “like a state” in the Gaza Strip, Turkey’s president says as Israel pounded the territory after a Hamas onslaught.
“Israel should not forget that if it acts more like an organization rather than a state, it’ll finish by being treated as such,” Recep Tayyip Erdogan says, attacking “shameful methods” of the Israeli army in the densely populated Gaza Strip.
Erdogan’s comments come in the same speech where he vows to intensify strikes against Kurdish fighters in Syria and Iraq.”
“
A vile man, a hypocrite that is destroying his own country and ruining the lives of his people, as do all fanatics.
Time to wipe out and destroy Gaza and anything Palestinian.
I do think, actually, that Israel does not do enough in terms of explaining who the “Palestinians” are and what a fraud the Palestinian cause is. There should be documentaries a plenty about what was in the area prior to modern Israel. That it was a wilderness, that it was the British and the Jews that attracted Arabs to the area in search of jobs etc that only the Western ethic could produce over ang against Arabic indolence and ignorance. That the Ottoman Empire recognized the ethnic people of the area as the Jews who never left and had been there for thousands of years. Granted, much reduced in numbers but still there as a constant as others came and went. This is what Mark Twain had to say about Palestine when he visited. Where in this account are the Palestinians?
““These unpeopled deserts, these rusty mounds of barrenness, that never, never, never do shake the glare from their harsh outlines, and fade and faint into vague perspective; that melancholy ruin of Capernaum; this stupid village of Tiberias, slumbering under its six funereal plumes of palms…”
“It was hard to realise that this silent plain had once… trembled to the tramp of armed men…A desolation is here that not even imagination can grace with the pomp of life and action. We reached Tabor safely… We never saw a human being on the whole route.”
“Nazareth is forlorn…Jericho the accursed lies in a moldering ruin today, even as Joshua’s miracle left it more than three thousand years ago; Bethlehem and Bethany, in their poverty and their humiliation, have nothing about them now to remind one that they once knew…high honor….”
In Jaffa, before he took leave of the country, he summarized:
“Of all the lands there are for dismal scenery, I think Palestine must be the prince. The hills are barren… The valleys are unsightly deserts fringed with a feeble vegetation that has an expression about it of being sorrowful and despondent. The Dead Sea and the Sea of Galilee sleep in the midst of a vast stretch…wherein the eye rests upon no pleasant tint… It is a hopeless, dreary, heart-broken land… Palestine sits in sackcloth and ashes…desolate and unlovely…”
Admittedly there were 472,000 to 750,000 Arabs who voluntarily left or were forced to leave Israel as a result of the war of 1947-1949. (I am using the estimates in Alan Dershowitz, “The Case for Israel,” p. 87. And as we all know, an even greater amount of Jewish refugees had to leave Arab lands in this same period or shortly thereafter.)
But let us just focus on the Arab refugees who left or were forced to leave Israel. A widespread assumption is that those Arabs and their ancestors had been there for decades or perhaps centuries. The reality is quite different.
Jews began to come to Palestine in the modern period in several waves beginning in 1882 (due in large part to pogroms in Russia, which began in 1881), and much agricultural and building work was done by Jews in Palestine in the subsequent decades to lay the groundwork for the eventual state. (There were about 30,000 Jews in Palestine in 1880.)
I just want to remind everyone of a few points:
1. In 1953, the chairman of the American Christian Palestine Committee wrote: “The Arab population of Palestine was small and limited until Jewish resettlement restored the barren lands and drew to it Arabs from neighboring countries… When organized Jewish colonization began in 1882, there were fewer than 150,000 Arabs in the land. The great majority of the Arab population in recent decades were comparative newcomers—either late immigrants or descendants of persons who had immigrated into Palestine in the previous seventy years.”
In short, the myth of Palestinian Arabs is a fraud.
I’ve also just seen it pointed out – rightly I think – in a thread I commented on in Twitter that Jews and Christians in the region were often forcibly converted by Mohammedans while others were enslaved or driven out.
That is the way it works. Forced conversion or slavery – dhimmis – to support the Ubermensch (muslims).
Did the Ottoman Empire use different tactics when it ruled the whole of that region? My feeling is that vile as the Turks were, what we replaced them with in the Middle East is for the most part (Saudis etc), even worse but that doesn’t make him any less of a hypocrite.
Two-faced? Erdogan? Lui? Never!
He’s a muslim; it’s all you need to know.
A butcher, too.
The West must wake up to Iran’s threat. 11 October 2023.
Tehran has never made any secret of its genocidal intent towards the Jewish state. It has long backed, financially and militarily, proxy groups such as Hamas and Hizbollah that seek the country’s destruction. In this case, however, its involvement may have run even deeper. Iranian intelligence officials have been accused of having had a direct role in planning and giving the green light to Hamas’s latest attack.
A bit of groundwork here for the coming attack on Iran. Whatever you may think of the Tehran Regime it poses no threat of any kind to the West and the Israelis could probably crush them alone. It suffers the same shortcomings as Iraq, Libya and Syria. It’s not a fan of the US. It is actually a part of the forming opposition to the American Hegemony and they would like to end it before it becomes serious.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2023/10/09/israel-hamas-iran-hezbollah-netanyahu-palestine/
I saw a bit of this from the US too this morning. just don’t mention the words “CIA funding.”
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Of course, attacking another country is the best way to ensure “peace”
The West must wake up to Iran’s threat. 11 October 2023.
Tehran has never made any secret of its genocidal intent towards the Jewish state. It has long backed, financially and militarily, proxy groups such as Hamas and Hizbollah that seek the country’s destruction. In this case, however, its involvement may have run even deeper. Iranian intelligence officials have been accused of having had a direct role in planning and giving the green light to Hamas’s latest attack.
A bit of groundwork here for the coming attack on Iran. Whatever you may think of the Tehran Regime it poses no threat of any kind to the West and the Israelis could probably crush them alone. It suffers the same shortcomings as Iraq, Libya and Syria. It’s not a fan of the US. It is actually a part of the forming opposition to the American Hegemony and they would like to end it before it becomes serious.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2023/10/09/israel-hamas-iran-hezbollah-netanyahu-palestine/
Morning all! (Ish; I am.four hours behind.)
Thought you mght appreciate a little gem from yesterday afternoon.
The loo in my otherwise lovely AirBnB apartment needed fixing. It was dripping continuously into an empty ciatern and stopping me sleeping. (Quick look on YouTube suggested easy fixes, but not my loo, not my problem.)
After a couple of days, the man from the rental agency bowled up with a man from the building and a man with a set of tools.
The latter two set to in the small bathroom, while the agent and I chatted, first in English, then – for an hour or more! – in Spanish. (I was exhausted but proud of myself.)
After much fiddling and a lengthy trip out by the blokes doing the fixing, as the nearest plumbing supply shop was out of valves, we all gathered to inspect the result.
Imagine four heads gathered ceremoniously around an open cistern, heads cocked to listen – when all of a sudden there sounds the unmistakeable.croak of a frog!!
We had one of those glorious moments when everyone looks at each other in disbelief, before it happened again, and the plumber realised it was his mobile ringtone…
OK, so, as I did try to tell them, the fill valve will also need replacing, as it is now emitting hogh-pitched noises. Yes, my loo is singing! 🙄🤣.
At least I now know how to reach the stopcock so I can sleep. Just lie flat on my stomach on the kitchen floor, dislocate my left shoulder, and scrabble.
Still, can’t complain – people pay good money to listen to singing bowls!
Counter tenor or contralto?
Morning, Katie. 😘
Definite contratenore!! One of the strangulated ones. 🙄🤣🤣
Morning!
Castrato?
I’m actually fascinated by those! I sang a Farinelli role once – the capacity was there to elongate phrases in a voice more powerful than Birgit Nilsson’s, for longer than we can imagine.
You need balls to do that…!!
Not if your name is Mado Robin. A French coloratura soprano. She was noted for her extremely high register.
Sometimes you just felt it was time to take the kettle off the stove.
Jimmy Somerville made a good job of the high notes in Orlando. I saw him outside Heaven nightclub not long after and mimicked him. He told me to ‘fuck off’ for some reason…innocent face
🤣🤣
Not a bog standard one then…
Flushed with success eh?
Just pulling your chain!
Not quite the Hollywood bowl…
Dear lady – Katy, please leave South America alone, and return to the UK. I, desperate in the Borders, need a lady like you. Come and talk to me.
Sorry, Tom – the call of the tango was just too strong!
I remember an American singer named Loe Rawls.
It’s when the stopcock lever comes off in your hand…..
BTL:
Andy RoadKing
The long and short of it is the media’s constant lies and attacks on Trump cost the world an effective (if unlikeable) president, replaced with the shambling vegetable that is Biden.
Of course events are unpredictable but it’s fair to say Trump had the measure of the world’s tyrants from Afghanistan, to North Korea, to Russia, to Iran and it’s unlikely any of them would have been running amok if Trump was in power.
To all those Trump haters who did their best to replace him with the shambling vegetable Biden: What have you done?
Rod Beddows
The world is increasingly unsafe for one reason. Any system for making and implementing decisions has only a limited attention span and processing capability. We in ‘the west’ have prioritised the fantasy of global warming and net zero over our traditional responsibility of safety and security for our people. Hence the result. This has been compounded in economics and finance by the illusion of ‘free money’ in the form of almost zero interest rate debt.
We are beset by our own hubris, nemesis is coming – may already be here. Catharsis will come in time but we have no way of knowing what it look like…except that it will look like the past.
This is why our country and its group of islands is becoming unsafe for its own indigenous resident’s. And our successive stupid governments have wrecked our country, our lives and those of our hardworking tax paying offspring and the future of our grandchildren.
Is Andy Roadking a Nottler?? I do like “shambling vegetable”!
BTL:
Andy RoadKing
The long and short of it is the media’s constant lies and attacks on Trump cost the world an effective (if unlikeable) president, replaced with the shambling vegetable that is Biden.
Of course events are unpredictable but it’s fair to say Trump had the measure of the world’s tyrants from Afghanistan, to North Korea, to Russia, to Iran and it’s unlikely any of them would have been running amok if Trump was in power.
To all those Trump haters who did their best to replace him with the shambling vegetable Biden: What have you done?
Rod Beddows
The world is increasingly unsafe for one reason. Any system for making and implementing decisions has only a limited attention span and processing capability. We in ‘the west’ have prioritised the fantasy of global warming and net zero over our traditional responsibility of safety and security for our people. Hence the result. This has been compounded in economics and finance by the illusion of ‘free money’ in the form of almost zero interest rate debt.
We are beset by our own hubris, nemesis is coming – may already be here. Catharsis will come in time but we have no way of knowing what it look like…except that it will look like the past.
Any single right-wing ladies on here want to meet a chap in the Borders?
Saga do a dating forum.
Just wondering, Lass. Tried most and they just want your money.
Saga seems pretty sound. I also believe there was a free one called Plenty of Fish or something like that. A friend found his wife there – but it is about 12 years ago I think. I don’t know if it is still going.
When Mohammed was expelled from Mecca he was taken in by the Jewish city of Medina and he repaid their hospitality by butchering them wholesale. His followers have repeated his example many times. How many supposedly isolated aberrations will it take before it penetrates the thick skulls of their apologists that this is simply the nature of Islam?
Britain is finished if Jews no longer feel safe here. 11 October.
We should feel shame at the spate of anti-Semitism within our borders. But above all, we should be afraid. Between a state that apparently cannot, or will not, apply the law evenly and the thousands of people openly broadcasting their hatred for Jewish people, this is a toxic combination with potential consequences too terrifying to contemplate. The authorities must offer Jewish citizens all the protection they can, while clamping down on anyone glorifying terrorism on our streets. If Britain isn’t a place where Jews can live safely, it really is game over for our civilisation.
It is game over Madeline. Where have you been for the last twenty years while the Politicians were destroying the country ?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/10/11/britain-finished-if-jews-no-longer-feel-safe-here/
They will hide behind islamophobia laws and carry on as usual.
Religion in England:-
Christianity (46.3%)
No religion (36.7%)
Islam (6.7%)
Hinduism (1.8%)
Sikhism (0.9%)
Buddhism (0.5%)
Judaism (0.5%)
Muslims 6.7%. Jews 0.5%. If I were a Jew, I wouldn’t be feeling safe.
They are already fleeing. Probably those Jews related to the ones that fled the last time in Nazi Germany before it was too late. I doubt you will find many Jews living in the Paris suburbs.
Take a deep breath. Jon Sopel speaks sense.
Good afternoon. As our Home Secretary is instructing the police to clamp down on support for Palestine we can expect planty more fascistic stuff to come our way.
https://open.substack.com/pub/tarableu/p/its-official-the-home-office-has?r=10qzvs&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Take a deep breath. Jon Sopel speaks sense.
Afternoon, all. I’m here early because I had a doctor’s appointment so I had to be up and at the surgery early and as the weather forecast was accurate for once (although, to be fair, it usually is when it predicts bad weather) and rain has set in for the day, I can’t do any gardening. As for Keir Stammer’s (sic) speech, he’s a politician and there’s a general election coming up, so only people with no brains or experience would be convinced that he has the answer.
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/10/10/black-lives-matter-palestine-twitter-hamas-chicago-israel
They stand with Palestine? I thought kneeling was more their style.
That’s only for whitey paying homage.
Don’t they know that ragheads don’t like wogs and use them as slaves?
Same that trans- and gays don’t seem to realise that they will be thrown of roofs.
There’s no cure for stupid.
The Daily Sceptic has a piece:
https://dailysceptic.org/2023/10/11/blms-chicago-chapter-backs-hamas-terrorists-using-image-of-paraglider/
I thought that was satire at first, but then these are the people who canonised a career criminal and drug addict, so I suppose making heroes out of a bunch of rapists and murderers of unarmed women is the logical next step.
I am posting this with the proviso that this is Twitter – but who knows? I suspect it is what we all suspect.
https://x.com/thedoctorxxx/status/1712069011385503842?s=20
Should have called the police if this is true, B&B with over 100 guests? I think not. delivered by the army? I think not. Why is this not accompanied by photos of said crates? However …………
I think it’s cobblers too. However the British Army have been training Iraqi’s in the UK.
The RAF, too. I’ve seen M E military at both Cosford and Shawbury.
Sounds like a load of cobblers.
The Hamas leader did announce that attacking Israel was just the beginning, they will be expanding the attack on Friday.
Getting their weapons at Friday prayers?
I saw that too. Certainly scare-mongering. If true, could be gang-related?
Prediction: it will be debunked by “fact checkers” whether it is true or not!
This link keeps saying something went wrong. But it won’t.
It may be that it is because you are not in the UK, vw? I have just tried it and it worked for me.
Blow for Putin as Kyiv repels frontline attacks on key village Avdiivka. 11 October 2023.
Ukrainian soldiers successfully repelled Russian attacks along the war frontline at Avdiivka on Tuesday in a blow to Vladimir Putin’s forces, officials said.
“I can add that our defenders on the Avdiivka front repelled all the attacks of the enemy, no losses of lines and positions were sustained,” colonel Oleksandr Shtupun, Kyiv’s spokesperson of the joint press centre of defence forces, said.
He confirmed an escalation of Russian military offensive actions on the same front. He said Ukrainian forces repelled attacks in Keramika, Ocheretyne, Berdychiv, Stepove, Lastochkyne, Tonenke, Avdiivka, and Pervomaiske in Donetsk oblast.
The reporters seem to be unaware that according to the MSM Russia is being defeated in a Ukrainian counter-attack that has been going on for the last three months! These particular attacks speak to growing Russian strength. The probing of defences. Are they waiting for the Winter to finish the Ukies off?
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-russia-war-news-putin-uk-latest-b2427821.html
A war of attrition now till the Ukes run out of men and ammunition.
I can’t see much more help coming their way from the US now that Israel is at war.
I wonder how much the insurance is going to increase for EVs. the fire risk is now so high.
Afternoon Johnny. Insurance for them is going to be unaffordable without a government subsidy!
Plus, the increased premiums will be spread among all vehicles (incl. ICE). Can’t discriminate against the WEF’s baby, can we?
So more government (ie our) money and more on everyone’s premiums. Win-win – but not for us.
Plus, the increased premiums will be spread among all vehicles (incl. ICE). Can’t discriminate against the WEF’s baby, can we?
So more government (ie our) money and more on everyone’s premiums. Win-win – but not for us.
It’ll be all of us with a vehicle who will be paying more for insurance – all of us.
377571+ up ticks,
Dt,
Britain is finished if Jews no longer feel safe here
Complacent policing and brazen anti-Semitism after Hamas’s shocking terror attack should worry us all
By the same token via the ongoing odious actions over the last three plus decades of the political brigade and a multitude of tribal followers have left the decent indigenous peoples feeling anything but safe.
Britain has been finished for some time; the indigenous don’t feel safe here and haven’t for a while.
On a more cheerful note our Henry will be 28 next week.
He and Jessica, whom he met on his first day at UEA, have just returned from a holiday in Portugal celebrating Jessica’s Ph.D.
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while his brother Christo, who will be 30 in December, and Katy, whom he married last year, are flying business class from Frankfurt to New Zealand
for their delayed honeymoon.
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Your sons are a credit to you both.
Good looking chaps. I see Henry likes the 70’s look !
That’s my fault – I gave him a leather jacket for Christmas a couple of years ago!
Still a nice jacket. I would wear it.
Straight is it?
};-O
What?
The jacket you would wear…
I might chuck some glitter over it. Seems to be a la mode.
And the sepia look?
That’s his pic from when he was an extra in the Sweeney.
Been a strange morning here – we had a couple of pwer cuts yesterday evening but OH was able to flick the main switch and it came back. Off during the night and again this morning and this time it didn’t come back on………….so he phoned a call out company (paying a fee up front) but by the time the chap arrived, he’ d isolated the circuit at fault;; so the chap didn’t do anything. Obviously we now have power, but for how long? and what do we do about the dodgy circuit?
At least I’ve been able to potter outside but it looks as though it’s about to rain now so I’ve come in for something to eat.
What’s on the faulty circuit? Unplug each item in turn and see which one trips the circuit breaker
Not the obvious things which are running all the time like the freezer and the internet hub, but a couple of sockets upstairs in the older part of the house, so a bit of a mystery really. It’s been ok now for the last few hours so we’ll just have to see how it goes.
When was the house last rewired? Mice and such chew through wires.
A long time ago – it undoubtedly needs redoing.
Or at least looking at and tested.
Water ingress?
Who knows – all seems ok since lunchtime but the weather’s been dry here for a hile – rain this evening.
What’s on the faulty circuit? Unplug each item in turn and see which one trips the circuit breaker
If you have too many things running it can trip the main fuse. Perhaps time to upgrade your fuseboard.
Not that many things really, and the only things running at night are the freezer and the internet hub.
How are you today?
Not as bad thanks. I think i’ve had a bug. We will see. Got some tests booked.
Thanks for asking.
I know we sometimes knock Royal Mail for their inefficiencies but I ordered a new welding helmet yesterday. It was posted at 10.20am at a small post office near Warrington, it arrived in Inverness sometime during the night and loaded on the first train this morning to Achnasheen (over 40 miles away from me). From there it would have been picked up by the postbus and brought to my village where it would have been sorted and given to the local postman who delivered it at my house 3 miles away at 12.22 today. Total journey 460 miles. Not bad eh?
One of our son’s birthday is next Tuesday. We have put a card in the post today – I wonder if he will get it in time.
In contrast to the above it took 5 days for a letter to travel between me and a village 12 miles away albeit 2nd class
Wouldn’t surprise me if they had too many sacks to sort so sent them to London.
Would it surprise you to know mail to a different village goes via Inverness 80 miles away. Post within the same village area gets same day delivery if you write ‘Local’ on the envelope
12 miles away? You could have delivered it by hand – quicker and probably cheaper!
If you mean walk it there you must be joking – by car about £6 and my little legs wouldn’t cope with the hills if I went on my bike. Yes by hand would be cheaper
We’ve had a rotten postal service recently – but this week it does seem to have improved.
Why the apostrophe in “son’s”? One of your son’s what? friend, wife?
Thank you – Typo corrected.
I could have said: the birthday of one of our sons is next Tuesday , or one of our sons has a birthday next Tuesday.
Sorry – I was channelling Peddy there……… Mrs Pedantic here.
I am happy to be corrected.
I can stand up to criticism; I can also sit down for it.
Thank you – Typo corrected.
I could have said: the birthday of one of our sons is next Tuesday , or one of our sons has a birthday next Tuesday.
Good grief. I read it too quickly. First my brain thought you had written “wedding dress” and i thought – that’s a bit odd. Then “wedding helmet” and i thought- that’s really odd. Anyway, well done the Post Office!
‘Wedding helmet’ conjures up some lateral thinking 😂 – a condom perhaps
“getting a nice shine on that aren’t we aunty Christine”
Personal Services … Julie Walters.
I had to have a little sit down
I read it as “wedding helmet” too, and was transported back to visiting Carnglaze Caverns in Cornwall last year. Magical place for a ceremony!
I read wedding helmet too though years ago when I used to type up minutes for a parish visitors team who also verged at weddings, I had a bad habit of typing weeding instead of wedding!
I had a similar experience. The Doc made an appointment at the local community hospital yesterday at noon. I received the letter from them this morning.
Afternoon All
It’s almost as if welcoming and housing thousands of fighting age moslem gimmegrants wasn’t the brightest idea after all……..
Who knew
Oh yeah,everyone with more than two brain cells……..
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Medley
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Nice shack!
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I did wonder.
Tina Turner sang about Rowling on the River! JK is certainly on stream with most Nottler opinion on the fact that men are men and women are women!
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This may have been covered already, but who would commission and build an airport multi storey carpark with no sprinkler system (etc) ? My envelope calculation estimates an insurance claim in excess of £40 million.
Who would build cars that self ignite?
Depends on how much money can be made from it.
Chinese.
Afternoon Tim. Sprinklers? Perish the thought!
I feel safe down here in Wales, the Met office has issued a “yellow warning” for rain tomorrow. Gosh, rain in winter, whowoddathough-tit.
I don’t want to worry you but going down the A470 to Brecon this morning I passed 5 snow ploughs and a couple of gritters.
They have been briefed by the Met Office. As its winter, the brief has changed from insufferable heat, to death by arctic blasts. The MO is just unbearable.
A weekend outlook forecast which suggested that there might just be a little wintriness in some showers over the highest ground in the north of Scotland during the week has been talked up as usual by some of the tabloids.
Their Modus Operandi isn’t much good, either.
The yellow warning extends over the borders. We’ve had the alert, too. We’re also having the rain.
I would have thought that an open car park has little combustable material so the risk of the structure burning is low. If this is an EV or compounded by EVs catching fire, then I suggest that a sprinkler system is not going to be much use. I have seen reports of enormous quantities of water needed to extinguish Lithium fires. I guess the actuaries are going to have another look at the risks.
In Norway, the fire brigade dunk the car in a water-filled skip.
Sprinklers (or a water mist system) would/could have helped to control the temperature from reaching flashover until the fire
brigade arrived.
“Dr Philip Kiszely
@KiszelyPhilip
We should understand how this country has changed. Significant portions of the population are now comfortable to publicly sing and dance in celebration of rape, torture and murder. And many highly educated people are happy to frame this abomination as social justice.
These intellectuals are also outraged by micro-aggressions. They would cancel you for misgendering a bloke in a frock. The plane, in other words, has crashed into the mountain. Multiculturalism and identity politics not only hollow out the national identity, they obliterate the common decency that goes it.
Without shared values, a shared identity, and a shared understanding of acceptable behaviour, we are unrecognisable as a force for good. My instinct is to withdraw, I must admit; to look after Number 1 and accept myself as culturally, socially and politically homeless.
But you cannot give up. Because if you do, you automatically initiate the next stage in the game, in which the barbarians ransack your house and go for your family. It happens when societies collapse.
Recent events suggest that we are much nearer to catastrophe than we thought. Nothing focuses the mind like a crisis – so let’s think how we can do things differently.”
https://twitter.com/KiszelyPhilip/status/1712027122544288232
Without shared values, a shared identity, and a shared understanding of acceptable behaviour, we are unrecognisable as a force for good. My instinct is to withdraw, I must admit; to look after Number 1 and accept myself as culturally, socially and politically homeless.
Prospective Nottler this man!
The implication (which will probably never be acknowledged) is that behind these shared values and acceptable behaviour lies Christian ethics.
Try explaining ‘Christian ethics’ to anyone under the age of 40 without getting a mouthful.
We have quite a few under 40 in our congregation.
The kind of under-40 who would have had no contact with a church in his or her life and who would have been poisoned against our past…
There are, alas, all too many of those.
That’s exactly right.
So Starmer wants to build 1.5 million houses during the next Parliament.
While the Conservative have only promised to build 300,000 a year during their term.
That sounds like a big vote winner for those educated after 1997
If we assume that the Parliament lasts 5 years, that would be 822 houses per day, every day.
Do these idiots imagine that they will command vast armies of builders who will be toiling away so that some politician can claim credit for solving the problem that they created by not defending the borders?
I think the plan is for mud huts
For us – not for the incomers. That would be against their ‘ooman rights.
That’s after they will have taken over anyone’s home who has a bedroom more than the number of occupants.
The Home Office have already stated that incomers should not be housed in less than 3* Hotels. Meanwhile the indigenous homeless can go and do one.
Look at the ethnicity of most HO employees. That’s the reason.
Thank goodness there are three of us living here; Oscar and Kadi will have their own bedroom.
Home sweet home?
Tents.
In our climate? Oh, I forgot. We’ll be subject to global boiling and it will never rain again. Pity the weather didn’t get the message – it’s hissing down here and I’ve got the heating on.
Unless these prospective governments decide to follow Bob3’s idea in the comment below the houses will be built from bricks, thermal blocks and mortar based on cement. All of those three products are energy hungry in their production. In addition innumerable journeys by large trucks will be required to transport the materials mentioned and of course all the wood and sundry products needed. This does not sound very Net Zero friendly. Then of course there’s the energy required to heat and light the homes and energy for all these people to cook food, wash clothes etc.
I am fearful that neither the Tory nor the Labour politicians have really thought this idea through yet alone formulated a workable plan.
I’m certain, not fearful!
That is for the little people to do…
Where will we grow food?
In a vat situated in a factory complex donated by that well known philanthropist, Mr Gates. And you’ll count yourself lucky!
Very soon places will have “no electric cars” sign, just like the Tube has
no electric bike/scooter signs. There has to be a reason but I can’t
for the life of me think why?
Gives one no amount of confidence when travelling on the cross Channel ferry, I must say. Or in the Tunnel – even more fun!
Some while ago there was a lorry fire in the Chunnel which caused all sorts of problems. I think it was put down to the cab heater run off diesel. As I said lower down, I think the actuaries will be looking at the risks.
I’m very glad I don’t live in one of those swanky blocks of flats with underground parking and rich lefty neighbours…
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Merkin cat?
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Most of those idiots with the current thing on their profiles will be showing the rapist flag probably.
Nicked from a TCW thread…
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It’s probably the angle from which the picture was taken, but looking at the position of the Range Rover where the Luton fire may have started; it doesn’t appear to be in a proper parking slot.
It’s almost as if it was abandoned. Very strange.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12618033/started-London-Luton-car-park-fire-moment.html
Looks like they were about to park and then ran for it.
That was what I wondered, or even if it was deliberate.
I’m sure a Nottler can correct me, but I also thought that diesel wasn’t particularly volatile. That was a gigantic bang.
That would have been the detonator.
Hello Bill
As Luton is full of Mohammeds and Abduls etc . I wonder whether a greater crime has been committed , like murder?
The evidence will never ever be known .
Would a lithium battery been a possible detonator.
Quite right Sos diesel is hard to light, it has a much higher flash point than petrol
Thank you.
Presumably once the necessary temperature was reached something would blow, but even then I can’t ever recall reading about a diesel car exploding so violently.
It wouldn’t explode (that signifies vapour), diesel when it goes up is more a whooooosh
Unless the smoke was blowing across the runway why cancel flights?
Given what is happening in the ME, precautionary?
Rishi says there are just two sexes and Katy responds with anyone who identifies otherwise – warning: the insertion of a light bulb is involved:
https://youtube.com/shorts/GOQGiq0MqbM?si=LsBAi-AtX4Ae17bu
What does he know?
We have Essex , Middlesex Sussex
What about Wessex?
Or No Sex, Please, We’re British 🙂
Sophie as I know, it’s not a county…
Who’s she?
Sophie Wessex, married to Prince Edward.
Sex is what people in Morningside keep their coal in. Instead of their baths.
I’ll get me sporran.
Not any longer. She is now Sophie Edinburgh, a duchess.
Ah, yes. I must have missed that since I don’t follow the court circular. The post was following on from Wessex, though.
Indeed.
Why was there never a Nossex?
There was, it was next to Essex but had to be abandoned due to long whore drift.
Nah! We didn’t do Saxons, oop Norf. We had enough on our plate with all them Angles.
There is still this confusion between sex and gender. There are only two sexes – male and female (some people are born with an abnormality making them intersex, but this is a tiny number). There are three genders – masculine, feminine and neuter, since gender is a grammatical concept, not a biological one. In the English language, three genders, so for people who don’t feel they are male or female, they should use the neuter pronoun – it.
Should they say “Sh” before referring to themselves as It?
As in:
“Sh it is I, Leclerc”
We do not use three genders we use the.
Can you give an instance of the use of three genders in English language please.
Really the only time we mark gender is with adjectives. You’d say “a handsome man”, but “a beautiful woman”. “A handsome woman” is not a beautiful one.
I don’t see that as being gender.
Women are female, men are male. Those are sexes, but the use of beautiful or handsome marks the gender in the grammatical sense.
He, she, it.
In that case are there four?
He, she, it, the.
No; he, she and it are singular pronouns (they is the plural of all of them). The is the definite article.
It is an inanimate object not a gender.
In terms of gender it’s neuter, neither female nor male.
‘The’ is the definite article used for all three genders. Unlike French, German, Spanish, Italian etc., we do not assign a gender in English to inanimate objects e.g. table, chair, desk etc. They are all neuter. Sometimes an inanimate object is referred to by a gender e.g. a ship, which is often referred to as ‘she’, but this is the exception. The gender of a noun in English can be determined by its pronoun e.g. ‘he’ for father, ‘she’ for mother’, ‘it’ for a table.
“To nouns that cannot be declined,
the neuter gender is assigned……”
Mackenzie’s Shortbread Eating Primer 1952….
It makes sense.
There is still this confusion between sex and gender. There are only two sexes – male and female (some people are born with an abnormality making them intersex, but this is a tiny number). There are three genders – masculine, feminine and neuter, since gender is a grammatical concept, not a biological one. In the English language, three genders, so for people who don’t feel they are male or female, they should use the neuter pronoun – it.
Anyone asking what my “preferred pronouns” are will get short shrift from me.
I shall bluntly tell them that I only have proper nouns, that I am a bloke, and I have a first name that has served me well for over 72 years.
But it’s still a turd.
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He doesn’t even use gold dust he uses synthetic blue confetti.
Don’t panic! The research paper quoted studied only weedy European hops and not our splendid English varieties.
Climate change might also make beer taste better. But if it did, those moaning minnies wouldn’t bother to report it.
It might also make supplies of beer more copious (all that CO2 encouraging the hops and barley to grow).
Plus all that farting from the beer drinkers enjoying more and better beer.
Since we’re doing dark humour today…
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Academics….
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The Hamas atrocities towards defenceless babes and sucklings call to mind two horrific images from Shakespeare:
Lady Macbeth :
I have given suck, and know
How tender ’tis to love the babe that milks me:
I would, while it was smiling in my face,
Have pluck’d my nipple from his boneless gums,
And dash’d the brains out, had I so sworn as you
Have done to this.
Antony (In Julius Caesar)
Blood and destruction shall be so in use,
And dreadful objects so familiar,
That mothers shall but smile when they behold
Their infants quartered with the hands of war,
All pity choked with custom of fell deeds,
And Caesar’s spirit, ranging for revenge,
With Ate by his side come hot from hell,
Shall in these confines with a monarch’s voice
Cry “Havoc!” and let slip the dogs of war,
That this foul deed shall smell above the earth
With carrion men, groaning for burial.
The Christian God – and to a lesser extent the Jewish God – unlike the Muslim God, teaches the message of redemption and forgiveness but it is very hard to see how these monsters can ever be forgiven and their souls recovered.
Which reminds me…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gbE7MtI_co
A good book and film.
https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?&q=the+dogs+of+war+1980&&mid=0A8CF3D09588211FA3D90A8CF3D09588211FA3D9&&FORM=VRDGAR
‘Night All
You can drop a lit match in a pool of diesel and the match will go out it simply isn’t that flammable
Started in a “Range Rover diesel”
What a farce,you mean a Range Rover diesel/electric hybrid don’t you
https://twitter.com/AvonandsomerRob/status/1712112518162763839
Awkward……..
If you spray diesel, make a mist, it burns really rather well.
Which is why a half full tank of fuel, with vapour, is more dangerous than one that’s full.
That was the cause of a jumbo jet exploding – an empty fuel tank and a spark from a faulty electrical contact
So does just about any organic compound I remember the cornflour experiment from school
I seem to recall that loose flour in cargo holds was a real hazard.
I think almost any material with large surface area to particle size (or something like that) is highly flammable. Try topping up a fine salt cellar near a lit gas hob.
And blue and green his sharp eyes twinkled/Like a candle flame where salt is sprinkled …
Exactly.
Funny what you remember from school days!
I remember my mother sprinkling sugar on a fire to get it going better
Coal dust is extremely inflammable and is fed to power stations in that form called a fluidised bed because it acts like a fluid
Starmer and his big ideas about building over 1 million homes .
My no 1 son is an experienced electrician , he is working on some large industrial projects .
He says there are not enough qualified electricians / tradespeople to cope with the current growth in factory building , let alone on new housing estates . The trades are attracting people from Wales and the home counties and even abroad .. don’t ask me about his remarks about some sloppy Africans and West Indians who blast their rap music .. He has to check their work !
Homes are shooting up in Dorset , and Poundbury is like a large new town .
Rural areas have seen many new homes tacked onto villages and market towns .
There is a shortage of GP’s , schools , proper infrastructure, no rural buses , care homes , day centres , shops , chemists, and what else , oh yes jobs .
People commute by road or rail, season tickets disgracefully high, and all the while .. new builds are tacked onto villages … … WHITE FLIGHT..
https://twitter.com/PWHillman1/status/1711989044907999472
The truth , yes .
That post ends with, “…you can’t shave, your wife can’t shave, you can’t wash off the smell of donkeys, you cook over burning camel s***, your wife is picked by someone else for you, and your wife smells worse than your donkey, then they tell them “that when you die it all gets better”
Well no s*** Sherlock is not like it could get much worse”.
No wonder Muslims prefer death to life.
Let’s provide them ALL with it. They will ALL be much happier in their “paradise”.
We will ALL be much happier for them to be there too.
“that when you die it all gets better”
Let’s be honest, Sue, that line was a Christian mantra not too long ago.
I’m not happy in this current world, Maggie.
Andy the Gabby Cabby gives a special Youtube video today in the light of today’s Luton airport incident where flights have now returned to normal. As a cabby he knows the layout and issues of traffic movements at the airport.
Interestingly he posts a video where a firefighter is reported as having said that a diesel car started the fire:
https://youtu.be/tTDASVdsjW8?si=xxZSlazu5-rYcU3F
For the owner filling out the Insurance Accident Claim Form is going to be interesting….
Q: Were any other vehicles involved
A: Yes 1,199…..
He might be sure more will be revealed; I’m sure that any inconvenient information will disappear down a black hole never to be seen again!
#metoo
Has Putin committed an act of war against Nato? 11 October 2023.
The destruction of the Balticconnector gas pipeline benefits Moscow as winter approaches. The Finns are up in arms – and we should be too.
TOP COMMENT BELOW THE LINE.
Henry Smith.
The warmonger’s propaganda again… Not many people believe you now, thankfully.
Here’s another question for you: who blew up North Stream 2?
Whoops. Not going down too well? Looks like they will have to turn off the comments for another week!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/10/11/has-putin-committed-an-act-of-war-against-nato/?li_source=LI&li_medium=liftigniter-rhr
It would benefit Moscow even more if NS2 hadn’t been blown up!
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Looks like they’ve not only blocked further comments, they’ve deleted those already made.
Abolished them altogether Bob! Ah the glories of Free Speech! Lol.
That’s me for this cold, wet day. Had the stove on since 2 pm. And I am back wearing trousers. Hope it is better tomorrow as we have the market to look forward to.
Have a jolly evening.
A demain
Oh drat – I must have missed the bit when you were wearing skirts! Do any photos remain?
Have ye nae heard of Clan MacThomas?
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/10/11/isc-labour-vat-raid-private-schools-bridget-phillipson/
BTL
In France when Mitterrand tried to close down private schools each and every teacher in a private school went on strike and said they would leave the profession rather than teach in a state school. Of course this meant that the whole system would collapse because the state system would not be able to cope with an immediate enormous influx of children and so Mitterrand had to climb down.
I taught in private schools for many years – I certainly would have left the profession immediately had private schools been abolished and I would be delighted if every private school teacher now warned Starmer that they would not teach in a state school if private schools were abolished.
How would his government cope with the resultant chaos?
What Labour politicians seem incapable of understanding is that the state is not subsidising the private sector – it is the other way round. Those who use private schools are subsidising state schools because they do not use the services for which they have paid with their taxes. This enables more resources and more places to be free for those in state schools.
And doubtless the private sector teachers could still earn a very good living doing extra-curricular tuition for the children of those very parents.
If anything, it might make so-called positive discrimination at university level even more difficult; as how does the university reject the child from bog-standard wokademy if there is no background such as Blundell’s?
In fact some pupils in private schools already transfer to Sixth Form colleges or grammar schools after GCSE.
This is because they are already being discriminated against by many universities where a pupil in a state school with 2 Bs and a C grade at “A” level is preferred to a student from an independent school with 3 straight As.
The daughter of a colleague of mine found herself discriminated against because she’d earned a scholarship to a private school. Her mother couldn’t pay but universities turned the young girl down anyway, as white and privileged. She’s now studying in Milan. (Her mother’s family are Italian.)
Brava!
The sensible thing to do is to get the state out of education entirely and completely. Introduce school vouchers and close the department for thickos. That way you can send your child anywhere you want, topping up the difference. Folk then say ‘oh, but what if there’s only one school in the area!’ Start your own!
Tell me what most parents would prefer: the local prison – which is what far too many schools look like around here – or to Winchester Boys?
However, this isn’t about education. It’s about that favourite of the Left – keeping people down. If ability, merit and effort are rewarded people will learn to work hard, to rely on themselves. They’ll start to think. Nothing terrifies Labour more.
If it looks like an EV
Drives like an EV
Burns like an EV
According to the fire service it is a diesel.
The “NEW HYBRID”; burns greener than a forest fire.
Heyup All! Have I missed anything exciting?
Back home now. Spent the day at the Industrial Locomotive Society’s place at Stotfold Barn Farm photographing drawings that had been previously photoed on quarter plate film. At least we were indoors as the weather was foul!
Very wise to have been as far away as that from the “news”.
Heyup!
I once climbed (well, it was a steep hike, but climbing is more dramatic) the rock above Le Bugarach (Bill will know of it). After two arduous hours we emerged above the cloudline and to a magnificent view in all directions.
We met another
hikerclimber. He said something that sounded like “hello”, he must have heard us speaking English. From his foreign accent, and expecting him to be Dutch or Danish, I asked where he was from.‘Uddersfield! he announced, proudly. There had been no “hello”, but a hearty “Eeyup!”
And it transpired he knew of Peckham because his daughter worked for Southwark council.
Been to the caff in Laure, yet?
Noooon!
I wanted to go in August but was only there ten days and madly busy throughout.
Go to it!!
Bonsoir tous, toutes et le reste,
To the title and to misquote Churchill:
To think that one day an empty taxi may arrive at downing street and Starmer climb out.
Or
“To think that one day a taxi may arrive at downing street and an empty Starmer climb out”.
He’s certainly got an empty skull.
A man with much to be modest about.
… but not the wit to be modest.
Anyone do Wordle, it was a ‘phew’ for me.
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Shh! You shouldn’t have been giving away the answer, mola2! 🙂
Same for me
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Lots of those this coming winter, despite climate boiling.
A grave experience.
Burke and Hare?
Very Inter – esting.
Ones from Westminster, perhaps?
Well this morning I had an out of the blue phone call from Derbyshire. The lady told me she had been two cancelled appointments at the eye clinic. First one was too early, second 11:30 spot on. I had a short drive to Marshalwick Snorbens walk in to the car park NHS cabin and even at 5 minutes early was led straight into the examination room. After very serious close up photo graphics I was told I had the start of a cataract in my right eye.
Hopefully I (scuz the pun) will be able to get it sorted fairly quickly. Unlike poor old Bruce in Victoria Oz who phoned me today, who’s been waiting about 12 months and has now got to pay 5 thousand dollars for the removal of his.
I hope my 53 years of payment to the government might allow me better and quicker relief than poor old Brucie, who now can’t tell the difference between a shiraz and a merlot.
It now takes half a bottle.
Hopefully next year I’ll be able to help him with his choices. Assuming he’s
sold their magnificent beach front holiday premises on the fabulous Phillip island.
Any offers.
An optometrist (?) told me 2 months ago that I had a cataract in my right eye. He also said it wasn’t bad enough to warrant surgery. It’s made me a bit short sighted in that eye, which is annoying and seems to be giving daily headaches. Stick with your 2.5 non-prescription reading glasses he said.
I was told several years ago I have an incipient cataract in my right eye, but it doesn’t seem to be getting any worse. I was prescribed a new pair of specs three weeks ago, but they are are taking a long time to be ready – supposed to be last week, but they phoned and said they’re not in yet.
Personally i think people who have worked and paid into the system for more than 40 years should be given priority with eyesight.
I see.
😉
Today I took our 88 year-old friend, Jim, to the optician’s because the earliest appointment he can get with his regular ophthalmologist is in April. He has been wearing glasses for years, but since the beginning of the year, Jim has been complaining about not being able to read properly anymore; he eventually got round to making an appointment but here in France it’s a long wait before you can see one. So I suggested that the opticians could have a look at his glasses and maybe fit him with a temporary set until the appointment, just so that he could read comfortably.
We turned up there this afternoon and were welcomed in by Mathieu, a delightful young man who recognised both of us – it turned out that Jim had his last pair of prescription glasses made there back in 2020. “Read this”, said Mathieu handing him a card with texts in all sorts of different sizes. Of course Jim couldn’t; everything was blurred. So Mathieu whisks the glasses off Jim’s nose, looks through them and says: “But these aren’t your reading glasses, these are for distance vision” !
Jim had plain forgotten that he had two pairs of glasses…
Oh dear what a strange experience.
I hope he’s sorted his specs out now.
Perhaps he’d be better off with vari-focals. As i use I tried contact lenses a few years ago but found them uncomfortable.
Bi-focals, maybe. He gets dizzy anyway and varifocals are likely to play havoc with his brain. We’ll see how he gets on with coping with two sets of glasses. When we got home we had a good hunt for the reading glasses and found four pairs of old glasses tucked in a drawer; one of which was OK for reading. But these are not the reading glasses the optician made for him in 2020, which are goodness knows where. I found a glasses case with “reading glasses” neatly written inside, but it was empty.
The mercy is that it wasn’t the other way around: he might have tried driving with his reading glasses, with catastrophic results.
I suppose I was fortunate when I first used varifocals. I had no problem with them and they are photochromic as well. In the long run it saves a lot of money. 🤓😎😉
It’s the second time in recent days when I have seen the use of the word ‘slither’ when the correct word is ‘sliver’.
That’s because they lisp 🙂
Forty thousand feathers on a thrush’s throat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6bpsrWpjjQ
When I taught EFL (English as a Foreign Language) to French students, I always told them that if they couldn’t manage “th” (difficult for the French) then they could substitute F or V (for unvoiced or voiced) and it would still sound English 🙂
Only if they want to sound like a cockney.
That’s the point; it’s more “English” than saying ze 🙂
So what is the excuse for the good people of Featherstone calling their team ‘Fev’ instead of ‘Feath’?
The th in Featherstone is voiced so it comes out as V. Heath would be unvoiced and so F. Heather, though, is voiced, so V. Why they have a Cockney accent I can’t explain.
Well spotted.
Well he was doing OK before he described Saint George’s death as “murder”.
It was nothing of the sort.
I have a rule of thumb never to read any article/carry on reading any article which describes his death as “murder”. So at that point I gave up.
Charles Moore was at it on Saturday, too.
“So at that point I gave up.”
At which point you were near the end anyway and if you did look away you will have missed the account of BLM and its support for Hamas.
Ah thank you. That’s also been covered in the Daily Sceptic (and possibly Spiked).
Well… he died as a result of police action.
However. If he hadn’t been high on drugs, he’d have been able to breathe more easily. If he hadn’t been using forged cash the police wouldn’t have been called. If he wasn’t a career criminal plod wouldn’t have left the neeed to restrain him.
His death is the end result of Floyd’s decisions and life choices same as a drunk driver is killed in a car. The car is the cause of death. The reason it crashed is down to the individual drinking and then driving.
He was the cause of his own death.
If he’d got out of the bloody car like he was asked to repeatedly for half an hour…
No doubt it would. The Nazi’s would be labelled ‘liberators’. The Left can’t help themselves. They don’t know right from wrong, only the hideous hypocrisy of their own minds.
Heath speaks for me, most eloquently.
Plod will bend the knee…
https://twitter.com/FriendsofAlAqsa/status/1711878723572514839
Rain forecast, I hope it chucks it down.
Not on Saturday…
Saturday and Sunday sunshine ☀
‘Free Palestine!’
One each in a packet of cornflakes.
It’s a pity that xyz terrorist organisation won’t tear through the protesters doing exactly what Hamas did to the Israelis, it might make them wake up.
Better if they turned up IN Palestine!
Support for Palestine is supporting Hamas in pretence. There was a choice to drop bombs on civilians from gliders. A choice to kill people.
How about others make a choice to fight back against this revolting carnival of muslim.
It is as ever more complicated than taking sides. Israel was heading towards subverting its essentially secular judiciary and replacing it with an ideological one.
Unreported in the MSM is the fact that the Israel government was proposing the rebuilding of the Temple over the site of the third most important Muslim site, the adjacent mosque. The Al-Aqsa Mosque was recently attacked and desecrated by militant settlers.
Nothing can excuse the recent vile actions of Hamas against Israeli innocents. However the destruction of Gaza and indiscriminate destruction of property in one of the most densely populated cities in the world is itself a mistake.
The problem is that where once the US sort of brokered disagreements between the antagonists Biden or more likely Obama have no desire to do so. The problems derive from a stolen US election and the placement of a bunch of Obama’s idiots now in control of US geopolitical policy. They are amateurs and stupid people creating problems at their every step.
Hopefully Trump will regain the Presidency and go some way at least to restoring sanity to the world order out of the chaos of Obama/Biden.
I’m all for ending the violence, but it takes two to tango. You show us the way!
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A man walks into the bar – he sits down and orders a drink. Ted gives him his drink, accompanied by a bowl of peanuts.WANKER ……Oh my god you STINK……….Do you know, you’re almost as ugly as your’ mother.”
To his surprise, a voice comes from the peanut bowl.
“You look great tonight!” it said, “You really look fantastic…. and that aftershave is just wonderful!”
The man is obviously a little confused, but tries to ignore it.
Realising he has no cigarettes he wanders over to the cigarette machine. After inserting his money, another voice emits from the machine.
“You
By now, the man is extremely perplexed. He turns to Ted for an explanation.
“Ah yes sir,” Ted responds, “The peanuts are
complimentary, but the cigarette machine is out of order.”
Very good sir!
Thank you.
I have more like it.
I’m terribly sorry, but actually I think we need far more like her.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12618653/shocking-moment-duty-police-officer-slaps-schoolboy-face-sentenced-assault-birmingham.html
What are you sorry for? She should be promoted!
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I’m offended. If my mother hadn’t died 44 years ago she’d probably be doing time for all the slaps she gave to children, ie me.
I don’t agree with hitting children for the heck of it, but when the child knows what they have done and doens’t care because they’ve never been taught a better way to live there’s not a lot left.
My bruising from beatings then would have put both my parents in prison today.
I “explained” to fellow pupils that I had been hit playing tennis, and fallen down stairs, and run into doors.
But even so, I believe that when fights break out responsible adults should break the up and if necessary give the leaders a damned good slap.
It sounds awful – my mother would hit me where it wouldn’t be seen. She did this well into my teenage years until one day I simply overpowered her and took the saucepan from her hands.
I asked her ‘what will you do now?’ and laughed at her. At that point she had no power whatsoever.
I got slapped on the legs.
Yup. And no, I’m not offended at all. My 2 kids never had a finger laid (?) upon them. Well, truth be told’ I whacked the boy on his bottom once (a hand only), quite hard. He behaved so well for the next fortnight I was tempted to make it a regular occurrence.
On the other end of things, we have this: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12618099/Arranged-marriage-pakistani-bride-force-fed-anti-diabetes-pills-court-told.html
It really is time this cancer was rooted out and excised.
Horrible people.
It’s interesting the medics haven’t applied to the courts for permission to turn off her life support whereas, in the case where a young woman in hospital wanted to go abroad for possible life saving treatment, she was denied permission by the courts. I wonder what the difference was hmmm🤫
This will suit those of you the Good Lord has blessed with grandchildren:
Why are pirates called pirates?
Because they arrrgh.
What do Pirates call their Mothers?
What do Pirates call their Fathers?
Right, that’s where we’re going is it?
Why are farmers called farmers?
Because they oooooarrgh.
Why can we not see stars during the day?
What are stars?
How far away is it? can I walk there?
What is a jet engine. Why is it called a jet?
Why is it Wednesday and not thirdday?
Why is water wet?
Why does wood burn and water not?
Is grass really green or does someone paint it?
Why is up up and down down?
Can I change my name?
Do feet grow in shoe sizes?
Why do you have such big feet yet fall over a lot, Daddy?
Why do all Daddy’s friends like Mummy more than Daddy does?
Can Mongo grow a beard?
If there’s water in milk is there milk in water?
Why is it called a chopping board and et never gets chopped?
I go swimming in water. Why do I have to wash afterward?
Daddy, you get all wet when we go to the swimming pool, why do you then wash afterward?
And that’s just today.
His best one though by far was ‘Does Mummy know Ben’s Daddy has pictures of her?’
My daughter went through a phase of asking “But why” at the end of an explanation. This further explanation would then be greeted by, yes you’ve guessed it, “But why”.
Yep. Each query results in ten more.
Is up up.. what if I stood on my head?’
If they paint it, how much paint do they have and where is it kept? What about different colours?
I vowed I would never discourage her inquisitiveness, but it was hard work sometimes.
At a certain point, I turned round and told my children to work it out for themselves!
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*shudder*
Question 1. Tell ’em “What do you think that bloody big yellow thing up there is?”
He knows that one. We’ve built a 3d astrolabe, explained why some planets are hot/cold.
But then it’s why are they white not yellow?
Mars is very red, easy to point out. At night, at least.
Is someone holding a red glass in front of it? Why would you made red glass? How do you made red glass? Can I get some red glass?
Why is it called Mars and not 4thplanet? Why is it red? Do they have people there all wearing red? Do they have only red bricks?
And so on. And on. And on. His inquisitiveness is astonishing and we tryto investigate and explain them all (I’ve learned as much as he has) but it’s exhausting.
I follow you, but I often explained things to them before they asked the questions. I think they gave up before me.
Finding out the answers often stops the badgering – it’s the learning he’s wanting.
And that’s good. Thankfully he got his mother’s brain and looks and my …err….feet?
Are we going to get to see pictures of your son’s mummy?
Ask Ben’s Dad! The Warqueen did a fair few Lads Mags in her youth but as she is telling me to turn the laptop off and go to bed I will do as I am told.
I had a few dates with a ‘page 3’ girl. Much prettier than the famous ones, but hard work because she attracted so much attention.
Gosh… I’m ghasted.
The feet that fall over a lot?
The wisdom of children:“Why then do they bury people in the ground?”
Granddaughter to Grandmother “Grandma, when you die, you go to heaven, yes?”
Grandmother “Yes dear, of course”
Granddaughter
SWMBO likes that one, and here’s one back:
At a seminaaargh!
How do pirates keep up with modern developments?
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Goodnight, all.
Good night, Conners – and Oscar and Kadi.
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London is saved from flooding. The beavers have arrived!
Wetland? Looks like a park with a pond in the corner.
Satire isn’t dead…
Poor beaver. It’ll be dead soon – vehicles, dogs, gimmegrants, stress.
London is saved from flooding. The beavers have arrived!
Wetland? Looks like a park with a pond in the corner.
Satire isn’t dead…
Good night all 😴
With reference to the Luton airport car park fires as a Chief Stoker on a Type 23 frigate I was responsible for over 600 cubic metres of F76 Dieso (NATO classification for a refined diesel) and well over 30 cubic metres of AVCAT (An even more refined diesel for the paraffin parrot), and the one thing I noticed was how often it didn’t spontaneously combust.
In fact the stuff was so dangerous they put fuel tanks under all the deep magazines.
Diesel is very difficult to ignite unless mixed with a suitable mix of O2. Car fires are not unknown with leaks onto a hot engine but we have had ICE for a long time and I am not aware of car parks being burned to the ground or ships sinking as a result of fire. The issue is the flammability of lithium batteries igniting or being subject to fire from an external source. Its a new risk and actuaries will have to take it into account.
Or, arson.
‘She married a stoker…’
Well old quitter, that’s the way of the world today.
Morning, Tom.
Harking back to WWII:
Gen Patton Museum
Good morning, all – Thursday’s new page is here.
Thank you.