Mandy Lifeboats

I have spent the last 10 years trying to find my wife's killer. 

But I still can't find anyone to do it.  

1 hour ago, T-Dog said:

Posted in the 'Health and Sickness' thread but probably better suited in here.

Does anyone have any experience of taking Sertraline? I recently had quite a 'big' life event that has potentially changed my life, and I started developing OCD symptoms a couple of weeks after, to the point where it was affecting my work. Doc put me on Sertraline and I've been on it since Jan, and at first it seemed to work quite well. The dosage has been upped since, and now I feel worse, more anxiety based OCD about a number of things. I'm guessing 'life' has caused the anxiety, but I don't understand why it's hit me like a train when I'm on double the dosage now? 

TIA.

I have taken sertraline for nearly 20 years but for depression. 

Try experimenting with the time of day you take the dose. I started taking it before bed and it disturbed my sleep and left me feeling cr@p for a few hours before bed.  

I gradually moved to taking it when I wake. It's been very effective ever since. 

Sertraline can have side effects but they tend to lessen after a few months. 

Russia ship in negative buoyancy promotion. 

At one point you see the drone enter the ship's hull through a massive hole in the side.  1:27 - 1:30

And how could I forget.

Russia's policy on nuclear war is that war is instgated on any country that attacks Russia with nukes OR attacks Russia's nuclear capability. 

The Moskva could carry nuke as could many of the strategic bombers that have been destroyed.

Of course the German accidental leak may have been intentional.  

Putin said recently that he would go to war with NATO if they sent troops to Ukraine.  A few days later we seemingly have confirmation that its happened.  

Putin has threated war if - 

NATO interfered

NATO allowed its citizens to fight in Ukraine

NATO supplied targeting data

NATO supplied arms

NATO supplied long range artillery 

NATO supplied tanks

NATO supplied planes

Can you spot the pattern?  Wherever Putin draws a red line NATO very visibly jumps over it.  

4 hours ago, TheAuthority said:

a la recherche du temps perdu ?

Dr Evil origin story. Mike Myers. 

The Kerch bridge was closed to traffic last night and reports of explosions.  

There is speculation that Ukraine has done major damage to a ship defending the bridge. 

Fingers crossed. 

We all have hot bored housewives in our area looking for no strings attached sex? 

2 minutes ago, bickster said:

Mike Mooney, blandy…

I meant a real first name and surname. 

Do we all use pseudonyms when posting?  

Does anyone use their actual name? 

4 minutes ago, bickster said:

Dem says Mabye 

I've read much worse.  

5 hours ago, sheepyvillian said:

Nothing unique about Franco, just another mass murderer like any other despot.

I agree. 

But my point was that he left Spain in a reasonable state which is unusual. Most modern dictators have left their country under attack and/or financially ruined. 

We.......

1. Read and write English to a reasonable standard

2. Have a birth year beginning 19 or 20

3. Have seen or felt the sun

4. Are aware of Aston Villa,  Coca Cola, Disney and Microsoft 

5. Are related (if we go back far enough)

There has been a reoccurring pattern in this war. If Russia make gains NATO provides more help to Ukraine.  The recent Russian gains leave me in no doubt that NATO has provided something new. 

It could be as simple as providing targeting information for planes that are in mainland Russia rather than over disputed Crimea.   

I hope NATO has integrated its command and control with weapons based in Ukraine.   

Earlier this week Putin threatened war with NATO if troops went into Ukraine.  A senior German politician said that UK troops were already in Ukraine. He suggested they were helping fire Storm Shadow. 

There is no god. 

I was "not alive' for several billion years before my birth.  There was nothing.  Death = Not alive. 

28 minutes ago, ender4 said:

So will Ukraine get to a point where they have control of the airspace and Russia has no more planes in the air?

Probably not.  

Getting air supremacy with ground based missiles would require a lot of missiles. 

Getting air supremacy with F16 requires a lot of trained pilots.  

Ukraine doesn't have an inexhaustible supply of either. 

But stopping Russia gaining air supremacy is massive achievement.  

Hopefully the incoming F16 will allow Ukraine to assert air superiority over more of their territory. 

24 minutes ago, chrisp65 said:

 

Liverpool: strong disagree, it’s fine, it has the grit and the smooth and can be considered a decent weekend break

 

I last went to Liverpool on a business trip on 5th November. 

The tracksuit wearing youth had an endless supply of fireworks to throw around. I saw 3 shoplifters just grab stuff and run.   Two tables did a dine and dash whilst I was eating supper.  Wearing pyjamas to go shopping seemed perfectly acceptable.  Every other resident thought they were hilarious.  They were wrong.  

58 minutes ago, mjmooney said:

I'll go to the V&A, you can go on a rollercoaster. 

And miss my opportunity to view 10, 000 teapot designs dating back 2000 years? 

1. Take indirect flights. You save money but double the least enjoyable and stressful bits of air travel. 

2.  Eat vegetable soup in a cheap restaurant.  A mate is a chef.  He's worked in places where leftover vegetables on dirty plates become tomorrow's soup. 

3. Visit Middlesbrough.  The right armpit of Northern England.

4. Visit Liverpool. The left armpit of Northern England. 

5. Visit a circus that uses animals.  

6. Camping.  Miserable. 

7. Visit the V&A museum.   Pure boredom. 

8. Juggle pint glasses whilst drunk.  It used to be my party trick.  When sober I was excellent.  Then one day.......

Hey little girl is your daddy home?

Did he go away and leave you all alone. 

Oh no, I've got a bad desire. 

Oh, I'm on fire. 

....................

The 1932 Emu War. 

In 1932 the Australian Government decided to conduct a cull of emus. They wanted to cull 20,000 in order to reduce damage to crops.  They sent in the army with heavy machine guns.  

The army reported that emus were exceptionally difficult to hit once the first shot had been fired.  Even when hit by several shots the emus just ran away.  

The army ran out of their alloted ammunition having killed only 986 emus.  The cost of ammunition (10,000 shots fired) far outweighed any reduction in crop damage and the total number of emus remained the same. 

The emus won.  

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If we had a military division with the bullet-carrying capacity of these birds it would face any army in the world.  They can face machine guns with the invulnerability of tanks. They are like Zulus whom even dum-dum bullets could not stop

8 hours ago, blandy said:

That caveat is the important thing, I think.

It obviously needs to be a legitimate military target.  NATO has a history of attacking civilian infrastructure with military value as part of military operations.  Power, water, bridges, dams, factories, trains etc.  

But its probably best if they avoid civilian airliners belonging to China.  Even if they think there's a few missiles in the hold. 

2 hours ago, blandy said:

Really?  I'm staggered if that's true. That would be well out of scope.

It's true and widely reported. 

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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has announced that once Ukraine acquires US-made F-16 fighter jets from its allies, the nation will have the authority to deploy these aircraft to target legitimate Russian military targets beyond Ukraine’s borders.

https://www.eurasiantimes.com/f-16-fighting-falcons-nato-boss-ruffles-kremlin/

The plane was 200km behind the front lines.  I am no expert on air defences but Wikipedia tells me that the Patriot system has a range of 180km.  

I doubt Ukraine would have set up a Patriot system literally within sight of the Russian front lines.  Surely it would have been at least 30km back?? 

So it's something with a range of about 250km?