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  1. 1 hour ago, sidcow said:

    Highbury and Islington station.

    Was up there last night. Needed to go a way up the Holloway Rd. Ended up at the Landseer Arms. Nice place, but not one to be described as a must visit.

    A fun one around there is the Hammerton Brewery tap room.

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    They do great beer and their signature strong chocolate bar stouts. There's a pizza oven too.

    It's west of Highbury & Islington. They also have a pub to the north. Both are walking distance from the tube.

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  2. As a kid I suspected I wouldn't be around for interstellar travel and that was a disappointment.

    Now the World is actually going down the shitter on a wave of greed, ignorance and stupidity, I'm quite content to shuffle off before seeing the worst of it.

     

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  3. Otoboke Beaver and Orbital.

    Asha Puthli perhaps?

    As I tell you every year, you could take all the bands away on that poster and you'd get value for your outlay.

    My advice as a muso, is cut down on the headline bands and see other things.

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    The US House of Representatives has approved a landmark bill that could see TikTok banned in America.

    The measure would give the social media giant's parent company, ByteDance, six months to sell its controlling stake, or the app will be removed in the US.

    While the House bill passed by 352-65 in a bipartisan vote, it would still need to pass the Senate and be signed by the US president to become law.

    Lawmakers have long held concerns about China's influence over TikTok.

    ByteDance is based in Beijing and is subject to a national security law requiring it to share data with Chinese officials.

    Mike Gallagher, a Wisconsin Republican who co-authored the bill, said the US could not "take the risk of having a dominant news platform in America controlled or owned by a company that is beholden to the Chinese Communist Party".

     

    BBC

  5. The UK's in a bit of a state of flux with cannabis.

    With police resources stretched as they are, they're not always taking the types they're finding with personal quantities of cocaine down the station anymore. If they're satisfied that they've identified you correctly? They'll take the sniff and I guess you'll get a fine or summons in the post? I didn't see what happened next to find out which? 

    Cannabis edibles are here now, illegally obviously, but it's moving the culture away from the historic perception of being seedy and illicit.

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    Canada and Israel were in the top 3 stoner states a couple of years ago. I didn't see that coming in 1990.

    Don't know what happens next really? At the moment on a still Summer day, everywhere stinks of weed in London. Brixton to Kingston there it is. Legalised, I suppose it's feasible that the smells could drop off? (Though I wouldn't put the mortgage on it ). There will be people that choose edibles, and the dry herb vapes hardly smell at all unless someone's exhaling in your face?th-3488389494.jpg.50ff9c599ed7227d1ca1b5276e4a9b03.jpg

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    A sudden stratospheric warming (SSW) is an event in which polar stratospheric temperatures rise by several tens of kelvins (up to increases of about 50 °C (90 °F)) over the course of a few days.[1] The warming is preceded by a slowing then reversal of the westerly winds in the stratospheric polar vortex. SSWs occur about six times per decade in the northern hemisphere,[2] and about once every 20-30 years in the southern hemisphere.[3][4] Only two southern SSWs have been observed.[5]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudden_stratospheric_warming

    We've clocked up three this year.

    Not always a disaster by any means, but it is the roll of a dice.

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  7. 11 minutes ago, bickster said:

    Twang Dynasty?

    There are comedy sounding Chinese dynasties, so had to look it up just in case.

    It's the name of the 90s comeback album by Man.

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    Maybe one to come back to?

    3000 years? :)

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