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I would have thought he would avoid any word containing “storm”. Maybe he’s being trolled by his own staff.

I think Neville Chamberlain is very harshly thought of in the States. Although Winston Churchill may have been the right rhetorician for the war I have a higher opinion of Chamberlain both as a statesman and a person. Unfortunately he was an honest man who absolutely didn’t want to see a repeat of W...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-68769061
“2024 World Press Photo Contest: Winners revealed”

Lovely to hear that your abiding memories will be of a wonderful stay in Nepal.

“Tesla lays off more than 10% of its workforce”: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-68818113 ‘Tesla will lay off more than 10% of its global electric vehicle workforce. In a memo, first reported by news website Electrek, billionaire owner Elon Musk told staff there was nothing he hated more, &quo...

sugar magnolia wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:33 am Someone posted a CBS poll the other day that showed 79% trusted trump for their Ukraine-Russia news and now I can't find that post. Any help?

https://thefogbow.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... 25#p257127

According to the House of Commons library, as of April 2023 the median annual salary in the UK for 18-21 year olds was around £23,000.

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/re ... /cbp-8456/

Happy Birthday!

Change of venue?

“Truong My Lan: Vietnamese billionaire sentenced to death for $44bn fraud”:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-68778636

I’d be devastated if my shares in a basically worthless company were currently valued at only about 2.7 billion dollars.

I definitely recommend cleaning a loaded handgun. It’s easier if the safety is off.

Take your pick:

An entertaining (?) overview of how lucky we are to not have been vaporised. (Why do people say “nucular”?)

bill_g wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2024 10:18 am I totally get it Shizzle. You take care of yourself.

“Oldest Christian book goes on sale”: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68734783 “Christianity's oldest religious book, according to auction house Christie's, is going on sale in June. The Crosby-Schøyen Codex, written in Coptic script on papyrus in Egypt, dates to between 250-350AD. It i...

Happy Birthday!

“Germany fans banned from buying number 44 kits over Nazi symbolism”: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68708981 “Adidas has banned football fans from buying German football kits customised with the number 44, after media raised their resemblance to the symbol used by World War Two-era Nazi SS...

I wonder if a post-dated offer for tfg’s shares was made at the opening day’s price…

“Trump, Biden clash over Transgender Day of Visibility falling on Easter”: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/31/trump-biden-clash-over-transgender-day-of-visibility-falling-on-easter “We call on Joe Biden’s failing campaign and White House to issue an apology to the millions of Catholics and Chr...

Assisting the spread of the polite society… “Haiti: US guns pour into Port-au-Prince, fuelling surge in violence”: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-68668460 ‘“All the guns here are from the US, everybody knows it. If the US wants to stop this, they could easily do it one month!" H...

Thought this was (surprisingly) a quite good video: