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The WEF suggesting that everything we need will be free? Do they mention how we get there or who paid for that report? Because they're basically SPECTRE and i'd question their motives for antything.

I've not been on this thread for a while. Nick Hancock's a blast from the past. What's he been up to?

Down on the Severn Estuary, our watering can blew over. Mad.

The reason why stronger storms may become a more regular occurrence is because higher water temperatures on the tropics put more energy in the system. There's no clear evidence that there will be more storms, but a high chance that the storms we have will be stronger. Obviously no one knows for sure because it's uncharted territory. Weather and climate are not the same but they are pretty well related to each other.

This is also a factor in my choice of supermarkets. If they want to stop people stealing them they should adapt the exploding collar technology out of The Running Man.

I think they were the highest ranked team in the unseeded pot? Beatable though.

HMRC getting a cheaper rent is not the same as the exchequer being better off. Every £100 in rent subject to UK corporate tax costs the exchequer £81. 10% off with no tax represents a loss to the country. Not that the fiscal arithmetic is the only issue here, but it's not even a justification.

Big bump Jon Ronson's Things Fell Apart has been pretty good so far. Episode 3 is a bit of a tear jerker.

Deviants, the lot of us.

Why would we want to win games when we could have 65% possession instead?

Being born in the UK is a hallmark of quality.

Went out for bread and milk. Forgot milk but bought half a freezer's worth of Christmas "party" food. That's lunch throughout January sorted with mini quiches and mozzarella sticks.

Euph?

I was trying to pay for a bottle of wine at the self service till. It was quite quiet, after 9. The wifie gave me a full five minute monologue about what provisions she'd be making for her vegan guest at Christmas. Apparently there's a vegan turkey with mushroom stuffing, she wont put bacon in all the sprouts and it's a struggle to find little veggie sausages to make pigs in blankets. All before pushing the "clearly over 25" button. I wish she'd just said "have a good one"

I'm guessing from the type of graphic that it's for a management consultancy.

I don't know if it was the gun laws that were the difference- she was talking about the onus of proof for self defence. But that's really interesting stuff. I know little of American history.

I saw some American lawyer lady on the telly saying that if this had been in California or New York the self-defence test would have been a much higher bar and he'd probably be in jail. I don't know much about Wisconsin but i get the impression it's a wee bit yokelly and gunny. Maybe not representative of the whole US.

I don't need to know great composers or poets to know that people still participate in communication through those media. Just because they are not the biggest thing doesn't mean they can't be good or relevant to the minorities who still engage. It should be possible to just say "i like old stuff" without disparaging anything that's recent, just for being recent.

I'm not going to try it. Reasonable attempt though

Symphonies and poetry might not be the main event any more bit are still very much alive and kicking. Not easy to understand why you think they're dead at all. On the others, i can't see much evidence of anything having peaked. Especially if your evidence is that no one is going to replicate the self indulgent whimsy of Wes Anderson.

No. It was covered in bogeys. Conscience clear though, after reading your post i've raked it out of the bin and posted to Djibouti.

I coughed while eating some spicy noodles and had to blow my nose to get the noodles out. I did have a blocked nose but don’t now. I don’t want to get ahead of myself but I think I’ve discovered a cure for the common cold.

And the good stuff:

If people are going to block the road then this sort of thing is bound to happen. What if an ambulance needed to get through?