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European nations are arguably closer militarily than they have been for years. certainly not weakened Does this include the UK? I heard today about how UK Defence Companies have been excluded from supply contracts under the just announced 150 Billion Euro "SAFE" rearmament fund because we are not in the EU... although Ukrainian companies are included. Is someone taking the piss somewhere?

We had a worker living in Lockerbie at the time... I asked the office manager to give him a call to see if he was okay... "Yeah I'm alreet, just got half a dozen bodies on my lawn"

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Fantastic individual goal from their forward who was a handful in the second half. Shit from our point of view, but we’ve got nobody in our team currently that can do that. Powerful running through people and finishing well. Agreed, I said the same afterwards, the game panned out into one of those where it needed an individual to take it by the scruff of the neck and show some individuality. We don't have that type of player, any showing those traits were moved on by the previous incumbent leaving us with a team of pretty passers. SS has done well in making them crisper and more direct but he isn't working with his first choice of players at the end of the day, Stockport were very well organised in defence and we just seemed to cancel each other out until.... Not our type of game at the end of the day

Then another 4 please. There's score to settle

The Russians seem better at reading the battlefield... there was a Ukrainian spring offensive planned using German supplied (non amphibious) tanks and they simply blew the dams and flooded the terrain. In Kursk Russian special forces carried out a rear guard operation leading to their current position by walking up the now unused gas pipelines. It probably takes several days for withdrawal of intelligence to affect troops on the ground, it isn't as real time as air warfare, things tend to be more sluggish when dealing with the grunts.

Putin needs a victory... he has the Ukrainians pocketed in Kursk... just like we did in Falaise and Basra... he has offered to take their surrender. Once he has this he will move forward with a cease fire. Zelensky is playing for half time and getting everybody into the room an regrouping, playing the dark arts with the 4th Official and lying on the ball. Once the Ukrainians leave Kursk things will change but Mr Z and his backers need to find a positive spin... won't be too difficult for what is essentially a media company.

I have a historical sympathy for Poland. They were invaded by Germany, Russia and Czechoslovakia who jointly saw their populace as sub-human and Jewish. Their forces came over and fought along with us in the Battles of Britain and Normandy with a ferocity that our traditional armies found shocking. Whereas the others did nowt... rolled over and just tried to profiteer and get by. What was the Poles reward? We handed them over to the Soviets at the Yalta Conference

Probably, with the exception of maybe Poland, Russia can have the lot in my opinion, I wouldn't risk British lives or waste any more money on weapons

I have the kit in my lock up.. guillotine, underpinner, mount cutter, A frame cutter etc. My work was much more basic, I used to take black and white street photographs around Cambridge, frame them and flog them on the market... it was more of a paid Saturday hobby for me

It's not all "practical"... I liked it because it was a combination of practical and creativity... I did a basic one day course at a place in Northampton... getting the right kit helps things. Mrs D had a stall on Cambridge Art & Craft Market selling her glasswork and rather than just sit around "helping" I got my own stall, selling framed pictures of Cambridge, I took black and white photos, made them "limited edition" and framed them... we did it for good few years until Brexit and Covid came along. You can pick up the kit on eBay etc.. give it a go if you fancy it, you only live once

Did it part time a good ew years ago, thought it was something I could take up in retirement... I'll have to dig my Morso out of the lock up You'll never be short of work.

Maybe he's just getting confused... Smash the Pensioners, Protect to Gangs and sort out his Arse from his Elbow

It all goes too shit, he declares a state of emergency, suspends elections and stays in power beyond his term...

"Thank fuck for that" is what I say... I'm no tree hugger but I enjoy spending time on that coastline, there is one hell of a lot of wild birds and seals, especially at this time of year. Sounds like we got off lightly

Got the candles ready yet? Wish I was there, I'd get it sorted... video signal... peace of piss... fixed my gas boiler yesterday, loose wire on the HCM

It is now claimed there was no sodium cyanide on board which is a relief, I cyanide was pondering this... although its 50 years since I did my A Levels , sodium cyanide plus water makes hydrogen cyanide? If so expect a huge big bang! Bloody thing is off the coast near Donna Nook which is a massive seal breeding site at this time of year and near to my favourite beaches.

Captain pissed in his cabin and nobody on watch...

Not to mention Maxon's Sherbet Lemons... too many will leave your tongue sliced like liver 😁

Big bird and seal colonies out there... just as I get a caravan on the East Yorks cost... bloody typical

They make jet fuel at Conoco Killingholme "Jet" brand so I can understand why there might be a tanker lurking around

1500 miles in one week is not uncommon.... the clients who are setting the decarbonisation rules are the very same ones who expect engineers and managers to be on call at all compass points 24/7. Glad I'm not dong it anymore... couldn't think of anything worse leaving site late afternoon on the south coast and hoping to sleep in your own bed while watching some charge needle... all you want to do is put the radio on and get into that outside lane and munch away on the wine gums

He asked me a simple question about my mileage. You don't need to jump in and fling around your usual pretentious comments... I could rise to your bait but i know what you are

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cgq1pwjlqq2t So how the fuck do you drive into a 30,000 tonne tanker at anchor?

When I was PM on a major garage/supermarket account I could be literally anywhere in a day... Carlisle, Cornwall, you name it... a big 2 litre six speed diesel lump would do 800 miles on an 11 gallon tank. Semi-retired office based on a three day week now... pricing maintenance jobs from Brighton to Edinburgh so the younger managers will be putting the miles in if I do my job right!