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He's definitely not biased. But if you asked him to criticise Israel, his cheek would start twitching, sweat would pour from his brow, blood drip from his nose, his hands uncontrollably shake, and he'd quickly wibble off to the nearest fire escape/exit/bathroom/cupboard to hide until you've gone. Or he'd say that Israel works too hard, makes cups of too well, and they're just too nice. And then wibble off to ensure head office wasn't going to purge him.

Patti Bell, Birmingham based fashion designer best known as one half of Kahn and Bell who famously outfitted Duran Duran in their early days, which lead to the out there style of Sigue Sigue Sputnik and co.

There is nothing about the Vision Pro, or to be honest any VR headset, that makes me think it's the future. There is nothing gained from using a computer, like you use any computer, but via a headset. You gain nothing from walking around with an iPhone UI floating in space around you. It's something that might have limited specific use cases, like gaming or takes on 3d modelling. But even those are flawed - all of the gaming stuff, even the limited really high budget titles, run into the same issues of how to create satisfying experiences that utilise the VR capability without being gimmicky or awkward. It's not a product that will be ubiquitous, not everyone needs it and it's too 'outside of norm'. It's dumb.

Lovely bunch of lads.

Something a little different. Obviously there's a few of these car repair channels, and this one is decent with less of the influencer/flash vehicle stuff (although he is trying to repair a Nissan GTR which looked increasingly... ambitious as he went). Anyway this video is interesting. We all know about 'category' cars and these channels love them. But this highlights that that system is sometimes stupid. Both of the cars on the video are category S. The Polo is trashed, most of the front end gone. The S1 has a dent in the wing and a cracked bumper. It's been written off because the insurer couldn't secure parts to repair it, and didn't want to pay for a hire car for the owner while getting the parts, so they wrote it off. There's nothing wrong with it. Mental.

The judge took into account the element of transphobia in relation to the boy and it's likely partly why he got a sentence quite so close to the girls. It wasn't a transphobic attack per se but he showed a prejudice against trans people and the defence wasn't able to convince the judge to ignore that element.

A freshly curled off turd would look unique in the badge stakes as well in fairness. The trick is making it unique and look good. This fails on the second part.

You don't need to flatten Gaza to fight Hamas. You don't need this. It's a choice and it ties in very nicely to very obvious desires to make Palestine disappear. **** Israel.

Both of them came from fairly stable normal backgrounds - the girls parents are both teachers, the boy's a graphic designer and transport manager. So middle class professionals. Obviously we can't know if everything was fine behind closed doors but there's no indication that there was anything untoward going on that might lead to a murderer.

Meanwhile in reality The Beeb It's so evidently a heinous crime even the faceless civil servants across Western nations are pressing the alarm button. But don't worry, there's not a price not worth paying for ensuring Israel gets what it wants.

Life with a minimum of 22 years for the girl, life with minimum of 20 years for the boy. I think she's got off a little bit there. She's clearly a danger and it appears to be a sustained and developed thing within her personality. I would not be surprised if she went long past her minimum. Judge's comments spent a lot longer attacking the boys defence that he's autistic and just 'went along with it' in essence, than going into the girl being a nasty piece of work. Possibly because her defence was essentially 'it wasn't a hate crime' and that's it.

The argument is by naming them it means the full facts of the case are open and can be openly discussed and considered, which isn't the case when things like names are withheld. I'm not sure how much I buy that, but I can see the argument that by identifying them it makes the case more 'real' and may spark people to consider what their kids are doing in their spare time in a way that is harder to parse when it's 'boy y and girl x' who did it. It's not without issue though. It does mean their families are now at risk, and it also means that it's more difficult to rehabilitate them when they re-enter society as their name carries notoriety that can't be overcome, regardless of whether they have accepted and overcome the things they have done. Saying that, in the case if these 2, she's clearly a nasty piece of work (various murder fantasies, kill lists even after she'd been arrested, got off on the killing) and he's an idiot toady, so it's hard to feel much sympathy.

The Ringway has had it's demolition approved. Birmingham is basically having it's 50s/60s architecture erased. And the replacement is just a big line of identikit apartment buildings.

Sentencing of the Brianna Ghey murderers today. There's been some controversy over their being named. The defence are also **** in trying to put a case forward, they obviously did it and there's not really much you can do to mitigate it. They seem to trying to claim it wasn't a hate crime and that the perpetrators are both to some extent mentally or cognitively ill - but in neither case to the degree to which it's going to do much to change the sentence (the girl has a personality disorder and the boy is mildly autistic). The boys defence is essentially relying on portraying him as a useful idiot and the girl the sadistic ringleader. Difficult one.

The Russians don't seem to understand (or more likely have pointedly mismarketed) their 'hypersonic' missile, so it may not be the scientists fault. They've been making out the thing is a cutting edge weapon, a hypersonic glide vehicle, when in reality it's a marginally modernised version of a weapon the Americans were messing around with in the 80s. It couldn't do the things that make a true hypersonic missile an interesting weapon, and was never going to. It's still potentially quite good, but it's just a 'good' air launched ballistic missile minus the atmospheric trajectory, not the extremely manoeuvrable erratic glide vehicle that the Americans and Chinese are trying to develop that is actually what a hypersonic missile represents.

The phrase doesn't inherently call for the destruction of Israel either, despite what those who would like to wipe Palestinians off the map (literally) say.

It's ok. He's actually lying about all of this. Honest. ... Honest.

The man. The myth. The legend.

...why'd you think Ramsey has been out for so long?

He technically is a new signing. He signed originally on a short term deal of about 4 matches to cover their keeper having a knee injury, the contract ended after the 4 games but they've now given him a deal to finish out the season.

We didn't start playing in Claret and Blue until the late 1880s, and even then the original plan was chocolate brown and blue.

Recently promoted by alleged wrong'un Russell Brand on the increasingly mental Tucker Carlson's twitter show.

His build and the fact he looks pretty comfortable with the ball and wants to turn and run might make him pretty versatile, could see him paying various roles through the midfield and attack as and when we need it.

Johnny Bravo.