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I was planning to leave around 2:30, and I suspect that others are in the same situation. Exactly when is this decision expected?

40 posts in 6 months suggests that @HulltoonDee only gets to post on Pie & Bovril when his nurse is otherwise occupied,

Nah. There's a couple of rows of seats above the tunnel. Not that easy to see in the photo below, but they are there.

To up the pedantry stakes yet further, c (the speed of light) is a universal physical constant. If light is travelling through a material, it will be slowed by thar material's refractive index (n). The measured speed (v) is equal to c/n. In all cases, however, c = 299,792,458 metres per second. It's not like the speed of Usain Bolt at all. Even in ideal conditions, his times will not be constant. Otherwise he would equal his world record every time conditions were 'right'

To be pedantic, light travels very slightly slower through an atmosphere (around 50,000 metrs per second slower) The speed of light is defined by its speed in vacuum

According to the Acts of Union 1707, Article XIX preserves the independence of Scotland's legal system. According to Rishi, therefore, Scotland can ignore decisions of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. Well, you can't have your cake & eat it, can you?

Yeah, yeah, you multi-banned troll. Have a nice day.

Where's the post then? Have the mods deleted it, just like last time you started using lissencephaly as an insult? Grow up.

I see that @RuMoore has resorted to using disabilities as insults again. If I recall correctly, his Stormzy persona was reprimanded by the mods for using exactly the same slur. No wonder he's deleted the post. Disgusting behaviour.

For various reasons which I won't go into here, there's many in the SNP that now wouldn't believe Liz Lloyd if she said the sky was blue.

They do mechanical watches as well as quartz. My Gagarin Heritage (centre) and my Sputnik Heritage (right) are both manual wind.

Here are the 3 Sturmanskie's I own - all bought from the official site. I've not had a moment's bother with them - nice watches. I don't have the GMT you're looking at though. Looks like a decent price. If you like it, you should get it.

I pay tax on my income. I don't pay tax on my pension contributions. It's only you that seems to have a problem with this. Are you trying to ruin another thread by taking it off topic? What does this have to do with polling?

I probably pay more tax than you do, but that's irrelevant, Just like most of your contributions to this forum.

No. What I specifically said was that there was no point in voting for Labour in the long term, as they have been unable to halt either their own or the UK's drift to the right during my lifetime. I don't consider Labour (or the US Democrats) to be "left leaning". IMO, they are just slightly less right leaning than their opponents. As always, I'll be voting for the party which I consider most likely to acheive a left leaning Scotland, preferably without a peerage or royal family. I don't see any way to acheive that whilst remaining in the right wing monarchist UK. Unfortunately, millennial voters in Scotland are still a subset of millennial voters in the UK. Agreed

It also suggests that there's little point in voting Labour long term - the Tories will always get back into power in the next 2 or 3 elections, and both parties will continue their shift to the right,

Skye is our first female greyhound. She was previously rehomed in Glasgow & it didn't work out, so we're having to work with her to overcome her fears. When she arrived, she was scared of men (it took 2 days for her to be willing to come anywhere near me), but that's all sorted now. She still has issues with big crowds (especially noisy children) but is getting better every time it happens. She's a lovely girl.

That tour looks a right rip-off! No transport plus 90 minutes is nowhere near enough time to see Birkenau. Book the tour through the official site (you can actually get into the grounds for free, but still need to book), but it's better to take the official tour. It's very detailed at Auschwitz, but less so at Birkenau - you are taken to one hut, then left to explore on your own. It's well worth the walk down to the ruins of the gas chambers then going to pay your respects at the memorial. Ir's a really strange atmosphere. Definitely not Disney!

With regard to the salt mines, are you aware that there are now 2 separate tours, starting from different locations? I had done the "tourist route" twice before, but the "miner's route" is now open, and I visited both in November 2023. Both routes visit completely different areas of the mine - the tourist route concentrates more on the carvings, whilst the miners route is more aimed at the practicalities of getting the salt out. On the miner's route, you need to wear overalls, a hard hat, a head totch & a CO2 monitor, and be prepared to saw wood, wind ropes & drive a water-wheel You can do both tours in a day, but your legs will ache after going down so many stairs! At the end of the tourist route, it's also worth doing the optional extension into the museum area (no additional cost) Unfortunately, they've stopped using the original lifts to get you back to the surface (tiny, cramped, pitch black & scarily fast), as you now go up in a new modern lift. It's really easy to do under your own steam, and you can do both tours in a day. Book through the official site https://www.wieliczka-saltmine.com/individual-tourist/useful-information/ticket-prices-and-visiting-hours. The tours are 122 zloty each (£24) and the bus is 6 zloty each way (£1.15) I was staying just north of the Planty in Krakow, so could catch the 304 bus at the Novy Kleparz stop at the top of Dluga . It takes 40 minutes to an hour in the bus, When you get to the salt mine stop (it's obvious), get off the bus, turn right & take the first left up the hill. The tourist route entrance is on your right. To get to the miners route entrance, cross the road from the tourist route entrance, walk between the stalls opposite & walk through the park past a monument to John Paul II. Cross the road at the other end and the shaft is on your left. The restaurant accross the road from the bus stop is OK for dumplings & beer. As you can probably tell, I'm a huge fan of the mine! Similarly, it's pretty simple to do Auschwitz under your own steam - busses leave for Oświęcim (Polish name) on a regular basis from the main Krakow Bus station (North-East of the Planty) I didn't revisit Auschwitz last November, but it's well worth doing. Make surre & go to both camps. If you do go under your own steam, the last bus back is surprisingly early, so we had to take the train to get back to Krakow on my previous visit in 2014. Finally, it's worth doing some of the walking tours https://freewalkingtour.com/krakow/?gclid=CjwKCAiAzJOtBhALEiwAtwj8tpnKSWDoiuZjXxOZ4uteBKyiVZfCNoTWrcBjtge8lj3l0HjzX_4EZBoCFfoQAvD_BwE The Old Town, Jewish & Communist tours (to Nowa Huta) are all good. The Macabre tour isn't so good but is still not bad. The Old Town tour starts at the Barbican, just outside St Florian's gate. There's a decent bar about 100 metres through the gate - Pijalnia wódki i piwa (Beer & Vodka bar) it;s cheaper than most in the city centre, and has a friendly crowd.

Was that not Fermer, rather than the current guy?

According to some Yoons on the Humza thread in the Politics forum, it's all the SNP's fault. Glad we've cleared that up.

Counting the days to retiral & a move back to the East Coast...

If he could please stop using: Beans on toast Dawn French Big Deek Corner That's hit the waltzers/dodgems/Peppo's We're in maroon, mate the commentary would be less excrutiating. I did like 'Jeezy Peeps', but the novely would wear off very quickly if repeated.

As I said on the other thread, you don't say the rhyme when using rhyming slang. It really gets on my thruppennies when he does it.

Add "the Dawn French" to that list. The whole point of rhyming slang is that you don;t say the rhyming word.