Seeadler

This is (a) stupid, and (b) factually incorrect. Bombs went off **in 2025** in the USA for which warnings were given. The cybertruck that blew up? The driver sent an email saying he had a vehicular IED. The bomber at Palm Springs? Had a website announcing it. eu.desertsun.com/story/news/l...

Giant House Spider, if anyone's interested.

Tell them to contact the specialists at the Mayo Clinic for comments on mustard gas, pepper spray and other hazardous condiment-based weaponry.

Went with Heretic in the end. What's bizarre about it (in a good way) is that Hugh Grant is basically playing "bumbling rom-com chap (slightly brainy edition)" that we've all seen him do many times before, but that character is here a monster.

I'm so sorry, Aparna.

Feel free to DM if you want/need to vent.

It's a differing opinion about GOING ARMED.

We don't need to. For a number of reasons, one of them being the law you mocked.

"No, officer, he's not loaded, but he's still measurably better-off than I am."

I wrote the manual (literally) for some very big multinationals on what to do in the event of an active shooter scenario, and run-hide-fight is absolutely right.

I once found myself on the wrong end of a knife in the UK. (It was in the hands of an abusive man objecting to me removing his girlfriend from an obviously unsafe situation).

I did not need to be armed to disarm and incapacitate him. Now he's in prison and his ex has a new life with someone else.

Excuse me, sir: is that sheepdog loaded?

"Give us this day our daily bread" on the day SNAP stops operating is a particularly repugnant synchronicity.

Speer was basically competent, but because of his context and the comparisons available, he was hailed as an outright genius. He wasn't. He was just sort of okay at his job.*

*Which is not to praise him, as "his job" was, in large part, Being A Monster.

Finally getting caught up on season 3 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.

The series continues to be my favourite among the raft of new ones we've had since Enterprise ended.

Happy memories of being an undergrad in a linguistics class and having to painstakingly explain to my (Australian) tutor why the combinations of vowels I had written to guide the pronunciation of certain words were not, in fact, wrong; he simply hadn't been exposed to my accent before...

An interesting article - not least because the /au/ sound the author discusses *is* commonplace in at least one form of English: my native Northern Irish, where the /au/ sound substitutes for /ow/ and (certain forms of) /ou/: hence the NI pronunciation of "owl," "brown," "ground," etc...

That's true of pretty much all of Star Trek, though. The only significant enlisted character in the show's entire history is Chief O'Brien.

Yeah, I've never bought it; the quality of the work, and the pattern of ideas underlying it, seems too consistent to be the product of more than one person.

TBF, *no one* is Shakespeare, and there's even some dispute that Shakespeare was Shakespeare...

More or less! "As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport."

You know your Shakespeare, Wendy; remember Lear's "wanton boys"?

Annual reminder that you're all celebrating an Irish pagan festival except for the candy and Princess costumes, that was America.

I've narrowed it down to either Heretic or Sinners, neither of which I've seen.

I have a model locomotive called Sandringham.

I may have to rename it.

Cherry brandy, after the way it's extolled in some novels (most notably Gerald Durrell's "Rosy is my Relative"), comes as a shocking disappointment.

There are, as I see it, only 2 motivations for authority figures endorsing antivax views. One is the accumulation of capital (both financial and political, e.g. popularity); the other is a eugenicist desire to see the elimination of "the weak" (c.f., Kennedy, Kulldorf, etc).

Neither is acceptable.

I can only conclude that Florida's surgeon-general is a lunatic who is trying to kill children.

Adding this to the list of "things this moron would never actually dare to say to a veteran's face."

Take a look at their account to see some more, including some very reportable examples. But even then, note that the OP is sufficiently craven to have turned off all replies.

Only fair to publish the response, which is very welcome. It is good to see MPs willing to be this clear about what is behind the flags campaign, rather than reach for 'legitimate concerns'.