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Good thinking,may also claim religious markings.
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The Great Dog Spirit Du-Lux
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You are supposed to drink white spirit and it disappears,I think.
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I can't find him.I think he has found a girlfriend and goes missing for a couple of days at a time,changes the subject if asked.
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Ed Miliband - rebel without sauce
Ed Miliband - rebel without sauce
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If it's cheering up you want, this always did it for me.
It's Robert Webb.
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It's Robert Webb.
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Have put cautionary Wet Paint signs I keep/"find" everything,just in case,you never know,just in case.
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I keep things because I never know when I'll need them, even though I know for definite that I will not find them again in the unlikely event that I do (need them).
It's a gift.
And a curse.
Mostly a curse.
It's a gift.
And a curse.
Mostly a curse.
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Probably didn't need saying.tinyclanger2 wrote:And to be clear - I'm not only tedious about Brexit.
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I find that uses for bits of old toot I have lying around only come to light the day after I finally decide to sling them out.
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I have "I don't know what it is but looks too important to throw out"old sweet tin container.
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Labelled "Fuck knows"just in case.
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On to kettle number 6(2007-2015),maybe I should give them away instead of cataloguing them.
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So on Syria, I endorse Hugo's summary, for the record. I play the ball not the man. There most certainly are cases that it is acceptable to attack a sovereign nation, the use of chemical weapons on children certainly falls the correct side of that argument.
However more broadly, we have two fairly clueless statements from Corbyn and also Boris on Russia/Syria.
In case Jeremy hasn't noticed we are in the middle of a cold war with Russia. They have annexed a chunk of Ukraine, their proxies shot down a 777 airliner killing a couple of hundred civilians. They have subverted the US election, they appear to be backing fascist candidates in Italy and France and they may well have interfered in the EU referendum.
The general lack of concerted western action against those bastards is worrying, because they are out to get us.
In the case of Boris, with his we can't back out of Syria. Will somebody tell the floppy haired muppet that we aren't and never will be, in Syria.
Any foreign minister other than Boris could get the G7, America's allies basically, to sign anything. What are the odds Germany and France just tell him to piss off.
Now my question on all this stuff is why do Momentum, Corbyn, McDonnell, Milne, Stop The War view Russia (kleptocratic fascist nationalist regime that murders political opponents) as being a. Left wing and b. Worthy of anything else other than utter hostility.
However more broadly, we have two fairly clueless statements from Corbyn and also Boris on Russia/Syria.
In case Jeremy hasn't noticed we are in the middle of a cold war with Russia. They have annexed a chunk of Ukraine, their proxies shot down a 777 airliner killing a couple of hundred civilians. They have subverted the US election, they appear to be backing fascist candidates in Italy and France and they may well have interfered in the EU referendum.
The general lack of concerted western action against those bastards is worrying, because they are out to get us.
In the case of Boris, with his we can't back out of Syria. Will somebody tell the floppy haired muppet that we aren't and never will be, in Syria.
Any foreign minister other than Boris could get the G7, America's allies basically, to sign anything. What are the odds Germany and France just tell him to piss off.
Now my question on all this stuff is why do Momentum, Corbyn, McDonnell, Milne, Stop The War view Russia (kleptocratic fascist nationalist regime that murders political opponents) as being a. Left wing and b. Worthy of anything else other than utter hostility.
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Helpfully the paint I am using,left over from I hate to think how many years ago,is labelled paint.My shed is carpeted by original dining room Axminster after room and therefore room flooring adaptions.
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Net curtains after they went out of fashion and a rocking chair.Lawnmower has its own additional carpet and bespoke parking space.
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I never had great success using old paint, it never seems to dry quite right. Surely new paint is to be had at low cost, provided you are prepared to accept something labelled Magnolia as opposed to Blossom White.HindleA wrote:Helpfully the paint I am using,left over from I hate to think how many years ago,is labelled paint.My shed is carpeted by original dining room Axminster after room and therefore room flooring adaptions.
The use of an Axminster for a shed might be considered an extravagance.
How does it cope with extended pipe smoking sessions, and continual pottering?
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TechnicalEphemera wrote:So on Syria, I endorse Hugo's summary, for the record. I play the ball not the man. There most certainly are cases that it is acceptable to attack a sovereign nation, the use of chemical weapons on children certainly falls the correct side of that argument.
However more broadly, we have two fairly clueless statements from Corbyn and also Boris on Russia/Syria.
In case Jeremy hasn't noticed we are in the middle of a cold war with Russia. They have annexed a chunk of Ukraine, their proxies shot down a 777 airliner killing a couple of hundred civilians. They have subverted the US election, they appear to be backing fascist candidates in Italy and France and they may well have interfered in the EU referendum.
The general lack of concerted western action against those bastards is worrying, because they are out to get us.
In the case of Boris, with his we can't back out of Syria. Will somebody tell the floppy haired muppet that we aren't and never will be, in Syria.
Any foreign minister other than Boris could get the G7, America's allies basically, to sign anything. What are the odds Germany and France just tell him to piss off.
Now my question on all this stuff is why do Momentum, Corbyn, McDonnell, Milne, Stop The War view Russia (kleptocratic fascist nationalist regime that murders political opponents) as being a. Left wing and b. Worthy of anything else other than utter hostility.
Having read Milne in the Guardian and Corbyn in the Morning Star, it seems to be nothing more sophisticated than my enemy's enemy is my friend.
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While I am on the whole some countries are not our friends gig, the Chinese (Osborne's mates and supposed nuclear investors) appear to have been aggressively hacking western and Japanese companies.
There is a link to the full report at the front of this summary from Schneier.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/ ... cloud.html
There is a link to the full report at the front of this summary from Schneier.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/ ... cloud.html
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Only doing one side of bathroom door,which somehow got forgotten to use up paint which we paid for for others to do.I don't trust myself any further or all but me or relatives to see(downstairs is the public one for use at a negotiated rate depending on urgency-the use of window cleaner almost pays for itself-the sight of a toilet seems to trigger the need.Fortuituously,the Axminster fitted the shed exactly,wasn't planned or original intention but seemed an opportunity too good to miss.
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Last time I looked America wasn't our enemy, Putin's Russia is absolutely the enemy of liberal western democracies.SpinningHugo wrote:TechnicalEphemera wrote:
Now my question on all this stuff is why do Momentum, Corbyn, McDonnell, Milne, Stop The War view Russia (kleptocratic fascist nationalist regime that murders political opponents) as being a. Left wing and b. Worthy of anything else other than utter hostility.
Having read Milne in the Guardian and Corbyn in the Morning Star, it seems to be nothing more sophisticated than my enemy's enemy is my friend.
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Metropolitan elitism truly gone mad.TechnicalEphemera wrote:I never had great success using old paint, it never seems to dry quite right. Surely new paint is to be had at low cost, provided you are prepared to accept something labelled Magnolia as opposed to Blossom White.HindleA wrote:Helpfully the paint I am using,left over from I hate to think how many years ago,is labelled paint.My shed is carpeted by original dining room Axminster after room and therefore room flooring adaptions.
The use of an Axminster for a shed might be considered an extravagance.
How does it cope with extended pipe smoking sessions, and continual pottering?
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FFS
1.It wasn't for the bloody shed,but from a room that had it's floor area carpeting need changed and we didn't want an obvious patchwork quilt.
2.On carrying to the shed in pursuance of still being useful to us and on easiness basis I wondered if it would fit,amazingly exactly without faffing about.
3.I didn't even mention the satellite TV,stereo system and the 24 hour Shed Maid.
1.It wasn't for the bloody shed,but from a room that had it's floor area carpeting need changed and we didn't want an obvious patchwork quilt.
2.On carrying to the shed in pursuance of still being useful to us and on easiness basis I wondered if it would fit,amazingly exactly without faffing about.
3.I didn't even mention the satellite TV,stereo system and the 24 hour Shed Maid.
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F£!@ing airlines.
United overbook a flight (as ever) and bring in police to forcibly remove a passenger who doesn't want to get off.
http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/new ... 76846.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The practice should be banned. People can always go on standby if they want, but if you've booked and confirmed a ticket, you've booked and confirmed a ticket.
United overbook a flight (as ever) and bring in police to forcibly remove a passenger who doesn't want to get off.
http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/new ... 76846.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The practice should be banned. People can always go on standby if they want, but if you've booked and confirmed a ticket, you've booked and confirmed a ticket.
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An airline spokesman said he did not know the details of what passengers were offered to get off, but defended the company’s conduct.
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Think I may know where Tarquin has gone........
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Haven't flown for a while,how common is this?
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indeedFailureville @Failureville 8h8 hours ago
It seems like the free-market solution to @united's #flight3411 problem would have been to increase the value of the offer to "volunteers".
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It seems to be standard practice. I have expressed displeasure at the practice quite recently (EasyJet). They evidently think it's fine to steal bits of your life.
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Removing a passenger by physical force, after overbooking (as opposed to altercation or security concerns) unprecedented.HindleA wrote:Haven't flown for a while,how common is this?
This is a PR fuck up of truly epic proportions.
You get overbooked all the time, when they get really desperate they start offering cold hard cash.
For the record Mr Airline, if I have a spare day I accept a 4 star hotel and an upgrade to business class on flights over 6 hours.
Of course they could always take the PIA approach and just write boarding passes and to hell with it.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/ ... les-report
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Cheers for info
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As a young bairn I travelled by freight plane at THE STATE'S EXPENSE.Think I had my own crate or similar.
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I'm sorry, when was this?HindleA wrote:Net curtains after they went out of fashion
As the owner of an Edwardian terraced house with sash windows (reinstalled 10 years ago), net curtains are very much in!
As are stair-rods but that's another story...
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Thanks for that Roger,just ,here I am,as far as I can tell I am the only person left with net curtains in the front rooms at least.We used to have them in all.I like net curtains,never went the dust collecting blinds things.
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I've got a set of brass stair rods which I intend to put back in use once I can remember where I put them. I expect they're in one of the sheds (yes, I know - showing off again). I just hope that they haven't been carpeted over.RogerOThornhill wrote:I'm sorry, when was this?HindleA wrote:Net curtains after they went out of fashion
As the owner of an Edwardian terraced house with sash windows (reinstalled 10 years ago), net curtains are very much in!
As are stair-rods but that's another story...
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Bearing in mind it takes me on average 7.3 years to notice things,tomorrow I will probably see everybody with net curtains.Definately a trend of concreting over front gardens here,I can say that with certainty.
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Seems to be more cars than people.
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If people stopped buying so many cars they could adequately carpet their sheds.
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Antimacassars?
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You'd need a fair few sewn together to carpet a shed, wouldn't you? Even a fairly small shed.HindleA wrote:Antimacassars?
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One fad we definitely don't need back is stone-cladding.
As you know I'm doing research into local housing and seeing what would be underneath beautiful Victorian brickwork covered over with the most hideous stone-cladding is enough to make one weep. What on earth were people thinking - were they conned?
As you know I'm doing research into local housing and seeing what would be underneath beautiful Victorian brickwork covered over with the most hideous stone-cladding is enough to make one weep. What on earth were people thinking - were they conned?
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Voiles. People still have net curtains, but they call them voiles.
And if I have to take out one more stone clad fire place.....seriously, what were people thinking in the 80's?
Where did the politics forum go btw? Not that I'm complaining. This home decor one is far less depressing.
And if I have to take out one more stone clad fire place.....seriously, what were people thinking in the 80's?
Where did the politics forum go btw? Not that I'm complaining. This home decor one is far less depressing.
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Here's two houses from the same street near me. Doubt if there was anything wrong with the brickwork but owner was probably persuaded that it was a good thing in the long run to have that stuck over the top.
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Hijacked.Willow904 wrote:
Where did the politics forum go btw?
I've been looking at houses all day and went to the local historical society meeting tonight. Politics can get mighty dull - especially when people are fighting old battles all the time...
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RogerOThornhill wrote:Here's two houses from the same street near me. Doubt if there was anything wrong with the brickwork but owner was probably persuaded that it was a good thing in the long run to have that stuck over the top.
Like aluminium siding in the US.
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