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Use the British multi use, multi functions word "bollocks" a word for almost all seasons and remarkably flexible from term of admiration, (almost) endearment to blistering profanity based on context...... A wonderful word rooted in the original slang for the dingly dangly portions of the m...

Naaaaaaah isolation is the key when Scotland turns into the economic desolate wasteland ......

These are two vastly different things and other than...nations leaving a "Union".... have nothing in common. The UK left the EU as it could stand outside (for good or bad) as it has a strong, diversified economy, its own currency, a strong and trusted central bank, a well established tax a...

There is much made of Scotland "making it's own way" by various "professional Scots" men and women who never actually have an answer as to just precisely who and what is going to pay for this wonderous idea. Scotland (and NI and Wales) all receive copious amounts of largesse, par...

I thought I would follow up on my phone questions. I decided to upgrade Mrs. RC's iPhone 7 to an iPhone 11, which is on sale for $10 for 30 months. I am sticking with my XR since I am at least a year from paying it off. I asked about getting the senior rate for both of us and the sales guy at the s...

Call me a cynical old devil however I see considerably more of Mr Hoares views and opinions than Melville would ever have conceived. Melville needed money, had a pretty good idea what was commercial, took his experiences and knowledge and write a somewhat turgid "ripping yarn" with suffici...

I am starting to look at phones again. Mrs. RC had an ancient iPhone 7 that is about out of memory. I have an iPhone XR with 64 GB of memory so I am OK. The question is whether I should get an iPhone 12 and give my XR to her or just upgrade her to an iPhone 11. The 11's are pretty cheap now. On our...

Here I am sitting in Omaha with my phone on Verizon 5G. This is annoying. Either it works lightening fast or it switches back to LTE, hanging the web pages I'm on. I need to look a nd figure out if there's a way to turn 5G off. If this is an android phone,go to Settings, Connection, Mobile network,...

Yep, stawman purchases CAN get you up to 10 years and/or 250K in fines https://www.atf.gov/resource-center/docs/dontlie-postcard-enpdf/download The exception at Federal level (prohibited by some states) is if the individual is making a genuine, bona fide gift to another where the purchaser buys, sol...

I'm afraid, fundamentally, as long as politicians are drafting laws in this, as in many many areas, technology for example, it will be fucked up beyond all recognition and NEVER attain a rational goal. Politicians, lets be honest, are fundamentally corrupt, they spend the majority of their time, pim...

What I envisage is Team Turd will have some shitty consultancy with RWNJ credentials spin up some proof of concept kludge based around one of the open source Instant Messenger platforms. They'll sell it to Team Turd as all singing, all dancing and "Hey it's open source so it's FREE!!!!" (N...

The idea unfortunately is rife with issues and potential f* ups A mask is simple, binary, visible, checkable not open to forgery, fraud or interpretation Let us take Florida as an example with its substantial migrant and snowbird population Florida mandates (or doesn't actively block this), 1. What ...

From the photographs I have seen of the beast it is a two section, double rack monster that can do 2 porcine beasts per section (one top and one bottom) or 24 chucks per section (12 top, 12 bottom) 4 hogs or 48 chucks...... :o This is what it would look like (well before Brother Dearest started usin...

Darling brother married an Aussie lass many years ago and moved to Aus a long time ago. Lives in the middle of butt kiss, feck off, God knows where...I believe that's the town name. The weird language thing for him initially was the way pretty much all names (predominately male) are all shortened an...

I was taken aback that what some people are reading in some publications is taken as gospel. I was taken aback that white men are telling us there isn't a racism problem in the UK. I was taken aback by the slams on Harry's appearance (I thought he looked just fine and very much in line with what yo...

Actually based on the the appearances of the time Harry was NOT looking to "escape" his lot pre Meghan He had a visibly happy relationship with his brother and his sister in law He was very fulfilled with the work he was doing with Armed forces charities He was very engaged with the Invict...

I think it is highly important to put cultural differences around race in perspective. First off, the UK is NOT the USA when it comes to race. Does the UK have racist elements.......yes, as does every country I have been to. If you want polite, invisible, Iron cast, inflexible racism, try Japan Does...

6 Nations, Rugby Union.......Wales thrashed Italy. The split between Union and League was at least partially class driven with the move by League players to be professional and paid with Union players "amateur" and unpaid with the great schism running from 1895 until the core of pay being ...

To add to the weirdness, as I am avidly watching the Italy v Wales rugby match, one of the few items that will get ALL the Irish, both sides, all communities, pulling together is this most quintessentially English/British sport.... And as for an England v Ireland match......

To provide some further context around Surani's post, the Irish/English (NOT British....very different thing) thing is very different between the North and Eire (the South) along with very, very tribal internal politics both North and South. Even the language of place names will identify someone. If...

Yes, there is a lot of......erm .....arrant .....BS in the Duchesses extended whine-a-thon. As an example she tearfully (whilst conspicuously rubbing baby bump) moaned about how nobody was there to help her or provide her assistance with her depression. And yet her husband, her brother in law and he...

A lot of background here Initially she co-operated with the police on the scene, was breathalyzed and then....... If the woman had not fled the immediate scene, conspired with others to obstruct the investigation, conspired with others to flee the national jurisdiction and deliberately and with inte...

I have never understood how "The Star Bangled Banner" got to be the national anthem...... In general, an anthem is Easy to sing by even the most tone deaf Easy to memorize Should be easy to whistle Is easily recognizable especially when butchered Fairly simple in word construction Fairly s...