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Quite possibly. It’s another theory of how Ted Cruz came to be, alongside the more generally accepted one that he’s 10,000 cockroaches in a skin suit, like your man off Men In Black.

Buc-ee’s is really big in places where there’s f**k all else to do. Think of it as like a department store for things that suburban Texans would like; you get a whole wall of beef jerky, that type of thing.

You can keep paying your NI stamp from overseas, should you have any confidence the UK state pension will still be a thing when you hit that age. Also in the US, once you start to draw it, you’ll get any increases - again, chance would be a fine thing, but there’s a decent bet some Tory c**t will try to buy votes off blue rinsers with something like that - it’s not locked at the amount it is when you start to draw it like it would be if you were in Canada, say. Medical insurance is a big one tho. We have pretty decent cover, but it’s about $15k pa with us paying $7k and my wife’s company paying $8k. And lack of public transport is something you’re gonna have to deal with unless you move to one of about a handful of cities.

A little diversion but a cool story - German immigrants to Chicago (aided and abetted by some Irish) rose up against anti-immigrant Mayor Levi Boone after he decreed pubs were to be closed on Sunday. Boone was emptied within a year of taking office for the immigrants preferred candidate James Curtiss. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lager_Beer_Riot

‘Tonight Matthew, I’m going to be Jock from The Young Offenders after having let the wee ones do some potato printing on his ear’

Jealous mate! I’d love to catch them but I can’t really see the yanks getting it. Or Norman being allowed on planes.

You might get it from the link in this tweet - it says 'watch' - I'm not getting a video in the article but I might be region-blocked

'I'm going for a number three, that's a piss and a shit and a w**k in a tree' (Nobody Likes Me, The Northern Boys)

Did he take his troosers off?

FREE speech’ is the latest buzz-phrase for right-wingers and ranters. Here’s how to bang on about it furiously without understanding it. Have a very limited definition of it By ‘free speech’ you really mean ‘me droning on about my predictable right-wing obsessions’, which are ALWAYS transgenderism, ‘woke’, BLM, etc. If aliens landed tomorrow, they would assume ‘free speech’ meant hating feminists. Post a quote you don’t really understand ‘I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it’ is what you should be posting furiously with a picture of Voltaire, even though he didn’t actually say it. Worse still, it refers to his right to criticise religion. And the b*****d was French. Look thick as pigshit Talk a lot about ‘free speech’, but in a way that shows you haven’t given it two seconds thought, eg. ‘Brexit is my freedom of speech. So shut up, Remoaners.’ Use it in a trivial context ‘Free speech’ is often used in the context of oppressive regimes that do terrible things to dissidents. If you’re Piers Morgan or one of his supporters, claim a tabloid TV interview with celebrity royals is ‘a hill to die on’, even though no one has been killed or tortured, except perhaps those who watched the whole two hours. Be hilariously paranoid If a few leftie students are trying to no-platform some oddball speaker, it’s clearly only a matter of time before Winston Churchill is completely erased from British history, right? Oppose free speech Don’t even pretend not to be totally partisan. Make it clear that you think the people being censored and persecuted are Laurence Fox, Nigel Farage and Tommy Robinson. Then when someone has the temerity to point out this is bollocks, say it’s an attack on your free speech.

It’s Murdo Fraser, if he wasn’t for the list he wouldn’t have a career.

If they’re using the same pricing structure as they do in the US their imperial stouts are pretty good value but anything with the word ‘pale’ anywhere are a bit silly. Maybe their hop supplier’s bumping f**k out of them.

Translation - 'after my 'million man march' last weekend attracted less than 100 folks and I managed to wear Nikes while trying to slag off Nike, Jeremy Hosking's decided I don't have enough sphere of influence and am too much of a joke to bankroll another campaign'. Not looking good for Lozza. He's 47k in arrears on his child support and the damages judgements from his losing court cases are coming soon. Wonder if it's worth it to Hosking to keep him going just to stop the entire country pissing itself the next time some arsehole giving it 'gO WoKE GO brOkE'

Aye, sounds familiar. I started getting that in my mid thirties, although if you want a bit of hope, it's never gotten any worse since then. Although everything else is fucked. A frozen shoulder because...I've no idea why, just my left shoulder decided it was going to be fucked...is still twanging a wee bit 8 days later. Sorry about shiteing all over the hope.

Does Kolsch have geographical protection that it has to be brewed in Koln? Any Chicago-brewed Kolsches I’ve had always say ‘Kolsch-style ale’ in the small print

When you say ‘reject’ does that mean just shite straight out? Dominos Pizza does that to me, it’s gone in three hours tops.

ChatFTP

Apparently the new head of policy is a Mr D.Dastardly

I figured Eastern Europe because the only time an American would have ever heard ‘serpentine’ would be Axl Rose talking about his cock in Welcome To The Jungle.

That's the bit I don't like, because it's so steep and the climb is so long it feels like the start of a roller-coaster before the big drop.

Aye. And TIL - I just google imaged ‘massive bridge Tampa’ and got jt off that https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_Skyway_Bridge

There's one outside Tampa that I absolutely detest. Made worse by having to do it once in a massive thunderstorm. This cunto

It just seems a weird one, given that from what I can see, he's very much in danger of losing his own seat. If that happens, he gets emptied as a very much bigger beast than he warrants, and those of us of a certain age will remember the hilarity and GIRFUYs of Portillo going. Is the thinking that they know they're whipped and ridding the Party of the most obvious helmets stands them in better stead for next time round by being able to say they've 'changed' (although no doubt Truss will still be on the back benches rictus grinning at whatever happens to be in her field of vision)? Or maybe he's pissed Sunak off and Rishi wants to stick a bit more humiliation on him before he buggers back off to California to lounge by a swimming pool full of his wife's money?