Anthony

Booked for Sat evening. That said, I always prefered the first part of the book.

That's the best bit though. It's the offender's problem to solve. It's going to cost them everything.

Well, we don't know about all the additional action being taken. This is just the council. There were 6 arrests for arson, but the article doesn't say anything about charges. Yet. With this council action, it may be that the police will look at other aspects (criminal damage, conspiracy to do whatever), and/or that the insurance companies might take a closer look, which could in turn lead to police looking at the financial aspect too (fraud)

The owners of the Crooked House are being forced to rebuild it. Nice to see arsholes fail to get away with it occasionally. BBC

Oh, hang on. On Topic? Eeeewww...

I did it in East London. With a white van. Do I win a prize?

Never again: Cheat on someone - coward move. Leave the relationship or deal with the issue, but don't cheat. Work full time. **** that. Camping. Too many miserable drenched 'holidays' in North Wales. Was going to mention pegging @Designer1, but what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas. Never: Visit Dubai. It's a poster child for so many things wrong with humanity. Buy an Apple product.They're OK, but it's a horrible, narcissistic, gaslighting and abusive company.

There is another point to consider here, and that is that the SNP are utterly fuced financially and politically at the moment, and there's an election coming up. They need some big wins to turn things around. Anyone notice any big wins here?

You say this to me every time.

My GF and I watched it and found ourselves accurately predicting what was going to happen. The acting was fine, but the show was not in any way interesting or original. Neither of us even smiled, let alone laugh. One episode was enough.

I'm worried about @Chindie. Having a shit time and being passed from pillar to post by the very people who are supposed to be helping him.

I read a while back that although they've managed to jury rig Storm Shadows so the work from their existing ex Soviet jets, the missiles have to be pre programmed on the ground. Fine for static targets, but if that ship in dock moves after you've taken off, then you have to abort the mission. My understanding is that on F16’s they can be programmed/reprogrammed in flight.

Hang on, I never said that. Oh, I see...

Since Tweetdeck became 'only if you give money to Musk', I've had to use regular twitter, so it has become 99.9% less useful for me. Previously Tweetdeck was always open in my browser and I could check all the important lists and feeds at a glance. Now I check @fesshole maybe once a month or so. That's it.

@Chindie@Chindie@Chindie@Chindie oh the **** irony! I'm trying to reply, but my phone and keyboard are going nuts as soon as I @ you. Anyway, it sounds **** shit, and you deserve better. I haven't been exactly where you are, but **** close. Unable to even start doing stuff. I eventually lost my job, not because I was ill, but because I didn't send in my sick notes. Which were on the table. I lost thousands because I couldn't put a piece of paper in an envelope. I'm about to go to bed, so I'm not going to type long, but for me all the depression, all the lost years, lost relationships and lost opportunities came down to one cause. ADHD. And it took **** ages to find that out. I hope for you it's something as simple, but being **** around by people who are supposed to give a shit, but don't, makes it so much harder to get the support you need and deserve. It still gives me rage like nothing else. If you want to pm, please do.

Saw them in FInsbury Park in 1992. They were crap. The only notable bit was when they dedicated Even Flow to one of the girls from L7 whose period was late. Nice.

I said upthread about how sanctions work/don't work. (I don't expect you to scroll back and read everything!) They're not meant to block everything completely, but to make things more expensive, complicated and difficult, and the more complicated and difficult it is for Russia to eg export oil or import high tech bits, the easier it is to disrupt. As a result of sanctions, Russia has less money, things take longer and are easier to disrupt. If things are completely blocked from getting in or out, then that is a bonus.

I don't believe you.

Michael Stipe doesn't know shit. And neither do you.

If you take it in the right spirit, I think REM's Shiny Happy People is OK.

F16s have better radars, amongst other things, so will be able to see further, which means the Russian air force will have to launch their weapons from further away. This means 1) more time for them to be intercepted and 2) what the Russians can hit is somewhat decreased. I'm sure our resident radar expert can correct/expand on this. Additionally, for the past 12 months or so the Ukrainian forces have been concentrating on neutralising Russian air defences, my assumption is to increase the safety of the F16s when they arrive, thereby giving them more flexibility and give them a greater impact. SEAD (Suppression of Enemy Air Defences) is one of the most dangerous jobs for a pilot, but essential for air superiority. The fact that much of it has already been done by ground forces makes things much easier for any air operations. What remains to be seen is how good Ukraine can be at combined arms fighting ( coordinating ground and air forces); this is something NATO spends a good chunk of its time practising as it is so difficult to do well. That said, Ukraine has been doing it for a while and one of their (IMO main) strengths thus far has been the ability to quickly learn from their experiences. Russia is also learning, but nowhere near as quickly as Ukraine.

Cos we're human. We've all done it. I say this just in case you were thinking that it's only you.

Is, is that supposed to make you sleepy? Holy crap, it sends my blood pressure through the roof! Mozart, good. Mozart played on whatever they're using, good god man, that's torture.

I agree, but it hurts.

Sort of... You could upload them to YouTube, but make them private. IIRC there are three settings, 1) Public, 2) not searchable, but if you have the link you can watch it, or 3) it viewable by you and specified individuals. Any of those work for you?