A proper BBC2 during the rainy summer school holidays banger
The don't knows are quite high, we need a "Don't Care" option to properly evaluate matters
I think it shows the fundamental limits of laws at constraining silly behaviour, if that behaviour is the silly person's thing.
What made you play this shit song?
It was always just a whim away.
#TOTP
"I hope that silly big dog who does the food really knows what he's doing"
It's often poor but you get an insight into how DC wonks view the rest of the world, but in this one their Iran expert seems to be talking out of his arse about a sub-topic I happen to know a little bit about
The Foreign Affairs Interview podcast that just dropped is bad.
Helpful reminder if you've left it too late to send a gift/card:
"it's actually Mothering Sunday, not Mother's Day, and is about returning the church where you were christened, your "mother church", rather than anything about motherhood."
You're welcome
When people who are not Tories are worried that the Tories are straying so far from acceptable language that they caution them, rather than use it political clout is a testament to how badly they're breaking the bounds of decency
Small 'c' conservatives, they are not.
It's almost like when presented with issues of state that require serious consideration, rather than poor arguments memed on X, they're horribly out of their depth
s&p up 700 tomorrow eod after trump tweets "using magic to spontaneously materialize oil to REPLACE what was lost! wizard of the dark woods knows a GOOD DEAL when he sees one! oman owes us a favor!"
To be fair to the haters, the energy policy space has been so heavily populated by oil funded voices that anyone pushing anything more complicated that a sudden, complete green transition being viewed with scepticism isn't entirely their fault.
I don't have a cat but bless you for the reminder that the world can feel terrible
it's OK, the US is reliable RoL state, we'll lend you more Petro-dollars to cover it, secure in the knowledge we'll get it back...
Some evenings I treat myself to a well cooked meal, but tonight it's spiced baked camambert or as my niece calls it 'the dippy cheese'
It's not like people online to take view everything as being in the worst possible faith, then extrapolate the most damning interpretations of someone's thoughts from the words they imagine they have read.
Hope it's not been too wearing.
I was about to enter the Star Wars discourse, then I remembered while I'm happy to watch Star Wars films and TV, and play the games, my opinionations about SW are weakly held enough I can't be fucked.
searching Clapham Common for the cunning creatures did for Ron Davies
I believe it's over year's worth, on account of wanting a bit of breathing space should they invade Taiwan.
Think I read somewhere they've got a fucking huge strategic reserve on account of their vulnerability to blockade
They said "why are you going on about world politics?" in the chill-out room, and I screamed "It'll be important one day" at their their backs, as they returned to the room playing trite Jungle.
The French call it "pain au cockolat"
I admire the posters that get in the trenches 30 replies down, that’s true dedication to the game
It's the Tory party, they'll shaft the old gentry and give the new peerages to people who give them money in the present
Strategic Occultation
He's not entirely wrong, but it is because of what Russia does.
Make Russia Muscovy Again
We're living in a scenario in which the world will be willing to pretend the US President has won a war he hasn't won, because humouring the mad cunt is the least terrible of available options.
Well done everybody
If someone has forsworn social media are we allowed to steal their joke format?
I'm not complaining I just want a ruling
It's hard to overstate how much I loathe the Royal Mail now emptying the nearest postbox at 8am rather than 5pm, as it was for the last 20 or so years.
They're stealing a whole working day from us and it means my greeting cards often arrive late.
Moderately interesting that the new Supreme Leader shouldn't be a Supreme Leader as he's not passed enough religious exams to be an Ayatollah, and that's a constitutional requirement to lead the Islamic Republic (which apparently now works like a monarchy)
