Lal

So basically, Putin gets what he wanted anyway?

The basic premise behind the A24 Civil War film.

That's not a spoiler btw, the film is about war journalism. The premise doesn't really matter.

This how Gandalf should always look.

Yes, they've rejected all offers to fix the paving. And this week the new petting zoo Snugglewood Farm was announced. This is the only access to it. The trees will also go. People are gathering this morning.

Today is the deadline set for removal of this war memorial in #scarisbrick #lancashire by the greedy trustees at #thevenue so a petting zoo can be opened. Locals are due to gather at 10:30 am to protect it.

They did so much work to get this in place, previously there were only a couple of plaques in the two churches. It now stands in the way of access to the blocked playing field which they keep goats and horses on.

I've been recommended his books by a few people I trust on fantasy but I'm still wary as I'm so picky. Does he manage to balance world building with a dynamic story?

Scarisbrick war memorial could be removed on safety grounds A council has been accused of failing to maintain the memorial to those who died in World War One.

My dislike of unfairness has been stirred by this. My dad's uncle is named here, his story was sad, his grave is far away in Paris. Dad worked hard to get this memorial. It gets worse though, they've also fenced off the village's only playing field. #scarisbrick www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Scarisbrick war memorial could be removed on safety grounds A council has been accused of failing to maintain the memorial to those who died in World War One.

It's very sad, but the people running the Village Hall are threatening to remove this war memorial on 9th August. My father's uncle is also named on it 😢 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This only came to pass after the trustees who style themselves as 'the owner' abruptly fenced off the village playing field to keep livestock. The memorial stands in the way of the only remaining access to the playing field.

It's broccoli hair. And it's just curly hair, how can they 'ban' it?

Straight through the velux window?

It's hype and our primal urges. Start with a shortage, everyone rushes for it even if they don't actually want it. Scalpers jump in and it all kicks off. See also: any new games console release.

A wee boy with a broccoli haircut dealing with the complexities of contracting with care providers. Not promising.

Walking along the banks of the Thames and I've just stumbled on the opening and closing shot of an unwritten rockumentary.

He sounds bored. I suggest a nice jigsaw instead of putting his jackboots on.

He's likely sitting there cracking his knuckles already and looking up some words in his thesaurus.

JJ won by a big margin, but I'd love to go back to those years when it was all outrage that a technically amazing song wins over an outrageously fun one.

Came to make the prawn comment and I'm now sorry that so many other people did.

The only thing acceptable to Brexit true believers would be a British form of Juche. Eating turnips if they had to and worshipping frog statues.

My son hasn't stopped listening to it, he loves it.

It would get found out, Azerbaijan had a go at it, and got threatened with being booted, and Russia was also suspected. Easy to use culture wars enthusiasts though with cash to spare. And that's still unfair.

Check out where votes did and did not come from. West Vs Eastern Europe. It's not robo voting, it's people with more cash to junk on block voting. Change it to one vote only.

I have this question about the UK too, where there are six million trade unionists but we keep hearing about Refuk.

Everything is clickbait now, posting about the far right gets everyone to look. Unfortunately it has nasty consequences.

There's no rigging but it's cheap for Western Europeans to pile blocks of 20 votes to 'own the libs' (that's how this conflict is weirdly pitched). Eastern Europe voted differently. Stop televoting for a while and nix it.

I knew this would happen. They thought they were voting to get rid of all the brown skinned or non English people. They will never be happy because after that will come all left people, gay people, disabled people...

I believe it's more the costs in supporting the acts, that's a lot of salaries and expenses.

This is how Russia were asked to leave, public broadcasters raised objections and threatened to walk.

It's not rigging, it's heavy advertising and people throwing out bulk votes. Ukraine got about twice as many public votes in 2022, though that was fully organic with no advertising. It has to stop though or poorer nations will withdraw.