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And I see that there are moves afoot to establish the Putin Youth…..
https://www.newsweek.com/putin-youth-movement-teach-russian-children-national-principles-1724624
Using abducted Ukranian...

I note the Trotting mob are in the news. Way back when I was a kid it was crooked, hasn't changed……..

They are changing the law here to make it an offence to even have your phone within reach when the car is running, even parked. The result of stupid people wh will not obey much less restrictive laws.

Russia demonstrably cannot be trusted to honour any such arrangement any more than America would in similar circumstances. Hence US 'pilot' garrisons in unlikely places. OTOH in Aus we have invited...

Haa, that's a laugh unless you happen to be under the bombs. Might and money is right. Israel has wedged the west thoroughly. But they have their own internal problems now more so than most. They are...

Yes, I did note that, money talks. But the voters knew that, I think that was possibly the most important policy the Libs had but whether it would ever have been enacted is moot. You will agree...

I have no objection of all, but the major question is what shelves religious works are on, fact, fiction, fantasy, psychology…….?. (light hearted post but I wonder if anyone has asked that question...

I made an approximation of a Gondoliers scull and clamped it alternatively, plumped for left side.
I was forced to write RH at school as they did then. Bowl right, bat left, prefer left on the...

I thought the LibNats did a fair job myself, but then after a while some rot sets in, there were floods, and more floods. Sometimes 'fair' is not enough, but I thought it would be much closer than...

That was quick………..

Aren't cockpits locked from the inside these days?

Not so much boaty. as riverine

Duck's Ditty -by Kenneth Grahame


All along the backwater,
Through the rushes tall,
Ducks are a-dabbling,
Up tails all!

War crimes on both sides, but by far the majority done by the Russians….so far.
There's a whole page to look at here
war crimes in ukraine

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-65048602

I don't think Mhodi is good news for India.

Or have they larger ambitions?
"Earlier today, a U.S. contractor was killed and five U.S. service members and one additional U.S. contractor were wounded after a one-way unmanned aerial vehicle...

Be interesting, neither mob have clean slates. But then in politics who has?

Can you get the same restrictions for standing for congress or voting?

I had a friend who knew exactly how fast he needed to drive to keep rain out of the car with the top down.

The Civil War continues unabated………… amongst the American States

I was going to post a thread about what I call the Brazillia disease. Where property is so expensive that the workforce needed to keep the place running cannot afford to live anywhere nearby, and...

The product of a few generations of dumbing down, and getting worse.

Ones sexual orientation has nothing to do with any hypothetical god in that it presumably OK'd it in the first place, being the all powerful creator………………
Religions OTOH are man made structures.

Yeah, humans are like that. Maybe our demise would be a good idea. Make room for another species to have a go?

Russia needs Crimea for it's naval requirements, and anyhow where will Vlad's mates go for summer holidays if they lose Crimea? No one else will have them, and they may risk arrest.

"So should I bother responding to your trolling?"
No.

America…………… Not with a bang but with a whimper…….

Sounds like things haven't changed in Russia at all, only the Czar's name has changed. Certainly not the attitudes.

Look up Heimlaga here, he is experienced in restoring historic wooden buildings in Finland. He may be able to help with a solution best for your conditions.
You'll find his posts in the Ukraine...

That's a kind of psycholgical blackmail using fear as the hook. I am always surprised however how many people are 'shopping' and hence vulnerable to the religious charlatans as well as the political...

I agree, string it out. Make preparations…..and then cancel. Step and repeat. Meantime fling a few rumours at the internet……….

Way back at school some of the boys did extensive research on how to produce the most aromatic farts with the least amount of sound, and would quietly leave the room.
However the best I ever came...

Better the devil you know…………………..:arg

Everybody has that right, but not to the disadvantage of any other.

Part of the problem always is that the religious cannot comprehend an 'absence of belief', a 'nothing' and consequently often...

"I'm in a neighborhood Facebook group loaded with Karens who titter about homeless guys who have Stuff That Homeless People Should Not Possess (tm), and how it must be stolen. In particular...

Oh Ian is intelligent alright, and he's a stirrer, and a big noter. But his presence here is just to stir us enough to misstep and get banned, he has a history.
The standard of moderation is not...

THE HOLLOW MEN.
T. S. Eliot

https://allpoetry.com/the-hollow-men

Consequences are due, but of course precedent…………..

America's real history, and Australia's, and most colonial powers real histories in countries they invaded would not stand up well if the truth was to be told. And the facts are generally known but...

Again I don't need to quote Goring again, and the press, Murdoch in particular are always war boosters. Rupert's father was as far back as WW1

Stupid decision, and I'm surprised Ukraine accepted it.
BTW, does depleted uranium ammo have a use by date?

Nevertheless David support for voluntary assisted dying in Aus. has outstripped the mostly sensible safeguards put in by various governments. It's a matter where hasten slowly is the best principle. ...

Too late I fear, but I won't be around long enough to see if I'm wrong.The 'green lefties' are just as incapable of dealing with the situation as any other mindset.
I expect that humans will adapt...

Thanks for that everyone, I really knew there was no easy solution. Of course if the material there has failed what of the rest of the joints? I had a 1963 built mast fail for that reason, and when I...

A lot of people with capital and the MIC did very well out of the Soviet Union, and had to replace it with something…..anything……..

I don't think I need to post Goring's views on the subject again………….

Similar for Melbourne Jim, probably without such a big drug problem. Workers have voted with their feet and most large office buildings do not have the infrastructure to be converted to residential...

America may need a bigger war against another real or imagined threat to 'unite' the country………………. But nukes make a victory in such a war as moot……………….

He may be, and Aus is no shirker in the per capita use of resources. But it is too late I reckon. Of course I may be wrong, but at present the portents are not good for many of the worlds species...

I sail a 12ft ply dinghy designed in 1974 and likely built a year or two later. It has been in our club since new. Over the last season or so I have been puzzled by the leaking of water into the side...

….has been taken on by my sailing club as a rowing dinghy to be fitted with outriggers and my best 8ft oars. She's just a tad skewed so she needs a small skeg aft which I have still. It's not much,...