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" Rats undermined my dam "

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Morning refit Gilsey having been an accountant reminded me of the olden days on Prem Sikka's accountancy threads at the G . Generally only a few score comments, and we had fun ! Steve Hill FCA etc defended the nobility and selflessness of the Big Four against all comers . A little similar fun at The...

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6/4 Posting from the front, Stanislav Aseyev is Not Happy -- (DO Check his bio !) https://twitter.com/AseyevStanislav/status/1776546313863115067 BUT THEN, 8/4 --- " Following public uproar after an apparent incident of a “revenge summons” for a whistleblower report exposing corruption in Ukrai...

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My favourite Tory MP ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOv7zPrheyo&ab_channel=RosieHolt " With a hint of mischief, Holt remembers the time that “a Labour MP quote-tweeted one of my videos and said: ‘This woman is appalling, she should stop inside’. I tweeted back: ‘How do I even know you’re...

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Photographer Paul Conroy was with Marie Colvin when they were targeted by Assad's artillery in Syria . She was killed, and he's back at work after hospitals. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MoZx6tp_kM&ab_channel=TimesRadio Nice story about the group of infantry soldiers who learned how to do ar...

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Wes Streeting's war on the left ( nothing to do with his funders )A Youtube Short " Was Streeting has declared war today on what he calls the middle-class left-wing members of the Labour Party who want to prevent him from privatising the NHS. That's nonsense. What he's actually saying is he'd ...

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I have Shaun's book, also Aiden Aslin's. The latter underwent a RT 'confession interview' with his torturer standing right behind the RT 'journalist' .

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How much poorer weaker etc because of her , surely ? OK She had help ! She also had North Sea oil, something her predecessors mostly did not. And basically wasted it. It's always amazed me how some countries just can't look outside their borders to compare what their neighbours are doing differentl...

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How much poorer weaker etc because of her , surely ?

OK She had help !

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Bah, using a grinder is cheating, I just use the bottom of an old mug to sharpen my kitchen knives (ceramics being harder than steel). Although admittedly with blades that size using my technique would probably take about a week. Evening Sky, a week's optimistic i think, I took off a LOT of metal !...

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Extremely pleased with myself, I repaired the rotoscythe in the background of the photo and sharpened the blade on the 15HP, and both performed very well ! Was awake extremely early today, found 11 articles in the Times, and surprisingly 12 in the G . Just looked at the last one I selected " Or...

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"“The draft law on the media stipulates an increase in the share of the state language in television and radio from 50% to 70%,” the culture minister, Aida Balayeva, told reporters in the capital, Astana." Invasion fallout ? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/06/kazakhstan-drafts-m...

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Froggie crawled out from under his mower to find bizness as usual on the Xittersphere

Went back to sharpen the bluntest blade EVER, now for some tea before going to mow .

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Can't say I'm avidly following the WWragg saga , but this just popped up on his digging himself in deeper ...

Off to get petrol for mowers, much werk ahead !

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" 'Comrade' has posted on Canada being threatened by the US for buying Mig21's in the Sixties ! it was an APRIL FOOL on the WARTHUNDER.COM website Of course RU is using AI for their b0ts but it looks as tho they could sharpen up :-) " https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIIWW_VbQnQ&ab_chan...

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Morning refit Some light entertainment earlier with either a deluded , or more likely a RU troll ,at the Times Grief, anger and suspicion in Ukrainian village where collaborators killed 59 Two brothers from Hroza betrayed their own by giving Russian forces information which led to the biggest single...

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This may well be the first lol of the day ...

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Cryptic as ever AK .

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Afternoon I heard the catflap at 0630 and got up a little later to see him flaked out by my bedroom door ... growling when I went to touch his back . He moved a bit, seriously limping and complaining . He came downstairs later, suffering loudly, and then went to hide in the extension behind the kitc...

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Liked this --

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"LOTO and others" have already changed their line on this conflict a great deal since it started. That is just stating the facts. Just a little sail-trimming meekly following Washington AK . If you bothered to read the article Labour has no objection to killing a hundred others to get one...

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He has form, this is 2014,but there's probably some earlier stuff :-) In the aftermath of the House of Commons vote, which overwhelmingly urged the British government to recognize Palestine, Duncan launched what the London Times called “an outspoken attack on Israel for its construction of illegal s...

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Morning refit Thanks for this Sky, I somehow missed it last night https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/03/israel-gaza-ai-database-hamas-airstrikes Unsurprised at the depth of depravity, but new to see the large numbers of civilians of all ages officially considered acceptable. . Tracking peopl...

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RE the pandering to racists nuttery we also have the pandering to tax reduction nuts, ex ... Trussonomics !

Listening to France Culture on my way back from the beach

" Public expenditure is about the same, but
Receipts are DOWN because of Tax Cuts "

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Listened with half an ear to Part1 this morning, a GHASTLY story of Voice Chat, housewives backbiting on subsidiary private chats away from the'official' one .... Part 2 -- listening now ! " In 2016, amid the post-EU referendum chaos, one man had an idea. His name was Steve Baker, and he was a ...

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Same here, after my walk on the sand will now do a little strimming of jungle !

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AnatolyKasparov wrote: ↑Wed 03 Apr, 2024 2:25 pm Anyone about today?

Rather too much reading and watching so far, plus racking my brain how to fix a small practical problem ...

so will go for a health-walk on the beach , stopping off to get some self-tapping screws at the agri-coop to hopefully fix said fiddly problem !

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We seem to have a bit of a birthday bonanza going on. To be honest being born on April fools day does help somewhat when viewing life as one big cosmic joke. An outlook shared by Sunak apparently given the bizarre jollity he expressed today. Can anyone remember when Gordon Brown became Prime Minist...

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We were discussing birthdays in the long weekend thread, its my sisters today and she is 56. (almost exactly 20 years after our mum, and roughly 18 months younger than me) HB to your sister and missed ones to the others -- , Sky and your young Mum AK ! I'm with notnow, pushing 80, in 3years for me....

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Lazing by the stove while a gale blows outside . It's also too wet .The cat agrees . Another saddo non-negotiable Zionist -- https://twitter.com/Loyalfan68/status/1775089286267666825 The USUK actions on continuing to supply munitions don't sit well with this -- https://twitter.com/ChrisMcGreal/statu...

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Amazon book, rather journalistic style, I thought it might be fiction ...

I checked --

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refitman wrote: ↑Sun 31 Mar, 2024 10:19 pm When Damien Green and Iain Smith say you're being too cruel...
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Reminds me of one T.Blair's fagpacket idea of fining bods, was it also rough sleepers ?

As tho they have charged-up bank accounts AND a bloody card !

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"""" After the CIA PLOT which brought the Nazis to power .... these are either extras re-enacting and playing dead OR the result of a false flag operation ! """" George Galloway News (I wouldn't be surprised ! ) https://twitter.com/olddog100ua/status/17745017...

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<r>Heroes of Putin's Russia -- <s>[b]</s><SIZE size="150"><s>[size=150]</s>How Putin’s convict soldiers return as ‘savages’ to rape and kill again<e>[/size]</e></SIZE><e>[/b]</e> <s>[b]</s>Thousands of criminals have come home broken after fighting in Ukraine to secure the...

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Radio 4 early this morning was deep in the Shitty Rivers story --

Good one in The Times too--

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Nice read with a very funny bit at the end -- Some people notably Davis Runciman this week in the G have assumed that a Corbyn labour government wold inevitably have led to a run on the pound similar to the Truss Disaster and Mitterand's first govt after 1981 ! Well Corbs would have had some sensibl...

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AnatolyKasparov wrote: ↑Sun 31 Mar, 2024 3:07 pm Its another nice day today, I suppose that explains why it is so quiet here.

Lovely morning... which I spent getting up late, making an experimental sweet and sour pork ...
then it rained !

Nice thread --

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This looks really good, will watch after getting in the last of the wood ( by headlamp ) ! " Marci Shore is an American professor of intellectual history at Yale University, where she specializes in the history of literary and political engagement with Marxism and phenomenology. Marci is author...

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The Russian Church was very much persecuted between the Wars, until Stalin brought it back to help the War Effort in 1943 as so many Russkys were still believers ! Since then it is documented that they were then literally a part of the KGB and now the FSB . ( Sergeant Starsky was infantry from Maida...

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Jonathan Fink began his daily hour-long Youtube interviews not long after the Invasion and his interviewee last night - " I'm obliged to watch a lot of Russian TV , and it's NOT good for my health ! " With which he heartily agreed as he has to do the same . The Russian public has had this ...

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Not really news, from heli gunships with hellfire missiles to tanks at Be'eri kibbutz on the day .

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Ah Well, he saved ten grand deposit on his mayoral bid

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Only posted that for a larf

C apparently close to Zero here, but is OZ behind us or ahead ???????

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Everyday life in Kharkiv, unnoticed on my social media .

I wonder why ????

Anastasiya’s mum hid in their Kharkiv basement (I think it was two years ago ) , her dad went onto the balcony to watch the fireworks .

One missile, no Dad.

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Though as with Putin, you do wonder what might happen after Orban goes. Haha AK -- a couple of the multitude of known unknowns :-) One I occasionally watch -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsU6gONt8Z8&ab_channel=ZeihanonGeopolitics As he concludes after a bit of frog-bashing (!) " if you...

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