TxRover

Dumped the youth team to take second fiddle in Fife Elite…which gave us a couple of players and then got killed…the cupboard is bare, with three children out on loan.

I’ve heard that chestnut before.

I’m kinda a fan of the Yank “duplex”, “triplex” (try-plex), and “fourplex”….but the fourplex is usually two up and two down. You reference a semi or terrace around here and they look at you weird.

Not for her.

For a close pass like that, if able, whacking the rear quarter of the car with a palm and spinning down to the ground is good for the drivers heart rate.

Given that their three frigates are reportedly damaged, this little lovely should be enough to keep the LST’s and small patrol craft away from any combat areas. The LST’s do have a shore attack rocket battery, so that’s useful.

He also basically started his career at Wrexhan, so it plays well that way too.

If you fly into LAX, I’d consider a hotel with an airport shuttle, and maybe look to do a bus tour or a couple of easy to get to spots there the first and/or second day, then get a car and start the fun. Don’t know about the train, and I wouldn’t take a Greyhound, but that’s me wanting control. Online forums posters from SoCal suggest the Surfliner over Greyhound unless you are trying to save every penny…draw your own conclusion. BART is a question mark. It suffers from low ridership, mainly due to crime and people being bothered. It wasn’t the worst, but the reputation it built wasn’t good. They’ve added police, but still advise not hanging around outside the turnstiles to avoid being accosted…but that’s a lot of San Fran now. Some things may vary depending on when you’re going (are local schools in or out can make a huge difference at parks and stuff), but the San Diego Zoo is truly amazing.

Keep on digging, everyone knows what you are, we just don’t know how deep you’ll dig before disappearing for a while again.

It’s almost as though you failed to read the whole story, as it notes there are questions about how China categorizes the Crimea and other areas occupied in 2014 and annexed recently. The clown is back, indeed.

OK, with three weeks I’d say fly into LAX. Rent a car and plan to drive to San Diego (120 or so miles). Do the LA and SD stuff, then drive back to LAX, return the car and fly to either Vegas or San Fran…both are doable on foot/Lyft/Uber, a car in each isn’t terrible, but more useful in San Fran. Optionally, reverse that and you’ll possibly be accustomed to the traffic more for driving, and better rested. Assuming you fly into LAX, check the prices from all of LAX, SFO and LAS on the return, sometimes a multicity is cheaper, like maybe into LAX direct and return via LAS and DEN, ORD or JFK. In this case, randomly picking dates with United into LAX from EDI, and returns from LAX, SFO and LAS to EDI, Vegas is $150 more expensive than LAX or SFO.

Let’s see: “100 rounds per minute”…OK, 45 rounds carried, with 32 in the autoloader…it’s out of ammo in 15-20 seconds. ”robo”…the crew is in the hull, the turret is unmanned…amazing. The fully autonomous version is in testing, whoops. ”invisible”…to radar…haven’t seen a lot of Ukrainians peering into a radar display. ”increased side protection”…really, given the problem is top attack munitions…nice, not! There are perhaps 100 available, probably less due to autoloader problems. The U.S. would love a couple.

And watch out where the huskies go, cause some drink enough water to not colour that snow!

Directly from their website: “We are the UK's largest independent debt recovery law firm instructed by various clients in matters relating to debt recovery and so you may find that we are contacting you on behalf of another company about your debt. We are authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority and also regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority in respect of consumer debt collection services and so you can rest assured that we will handle your case in a compliant, ethical and fair manner.” Typical scumbags, hired to shake you down, will likely sell the debt to someone else for pence on the pound in a few months. Last thing they are is compliant, ethical and fair…enjoy frustrating them.

Starting in San Diego is a bit off if you are driving, and in the U.S. you need to be driving in all those locations except Las Vegas (the only one with marginally passable transit and reasonably compact). Using the highway routes, San Fransisco to Las Vegas is 570 miles and 8+41. San Fran to LA is 383 and 6+07. I assume these numbers are why you are considering flights to connect, internal U.S. flights don’t have the cheap options you get in the UK/Europe. Personally, the cheapest options like Frontier are not worth it due to 1) the typical add-on costs for the bags you will have with you because you are traveling internationally 2) for even getting boarded early enough to get the overhead space they likely charged you for 3) the God awful hours they generally fly at, and you have to allow for arriving 1-2 hours before departure. OK, so airline data… Frontier, Spirit and Sun Country are the U.S. versions of easyJet, nickel and dime you on add-ones and costs. Southwest is the (often) secondary airport serving major carrier that doesn’t assign seats, the automatic checkin for $15-20 (each) is worthwhile if you need to sit together and you nearly always gets boarding in the first 60 people, if not the first 30 (Southwest opens check-in 24 hours before the flight, assigns boarding numbers as you check in, and boards in groups of 30). Alaska and JetBlue are similar, with features of the main line carrier below, and some Southwest style touches. American/Delra/United are legacy major carriers with three to five levels of booking (and different names)…Basic (no seats until check-in, limited or no carry-ons, fees for checked bags), Standard, Preferred (more leg room, earlier boarding, looser change rules, some bags, etc), Business and (perhaps) First-Class (unusual on internal flights except coast-to-coast). Airline Hubs matter because flights mainly work hub and spoke plus where you fly into and out of from home…LAS (Vegas) gets direct flats from smaller airports, but otherwise something like SFO-SAN often stops in LAX for Delta and America, for instance. United Hubs at SFO and LAX, American and Delta at LAX, Frontier uses DEN (Denver) with a secondary at LAS, Southwest uses LAX and OAK (Oakland), Spirit and Sun Country use LAS, JetBlue use LGB (Long Beach), Alaska somewhat uses LAX. The airfares will eat your lunch, but the drive time would too. If you were doing San Diego, LA and Vegas, I’d say drive it…San Fransisco makes that a nightmare, unless you wanted to travel more slowly and do the Pacific Coast Highway. Anyway: San Diego, amazing…Mexico side trip is iffy. Tijuana is marginally safe in the tourist areas, but it’s a tourist trap. The U.S. State Department has it as reconsider travel (second worst level). You’ll see better Mexican culture in Los Angeles. LA is huge and a bit meh, with some great places. Vegas is, well, Vegas. It’s not for kids, but has something of everything otherwise. San Fransisco has some serious issues with homelessness and street crime these days. There’s the standard tourist crap, and some interesting stuff, but the stuff around it tends to be more attractive now. How many weeks are you traveling and where are you flying into? If it’s two weeks or less, I think it’s too many places.

If you’re about to do anything, and need someone to hold your beer, don’t!

On the Alabama party shooting..89 rounds, seven guns fired, more in the party, and two with illegal, auto-sears. Two of the shooters linked to other shootings in the area, including one with an ankle monitor that was tracked later to show he was there. Jesus wept, a number of attendees showed their guns to the adults asking them to leave, the shooting started right after that. https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/local/2023/04/25/89-shells-seven-guns-dadeville-shooting-investigator-testifies/70144194007/ To be honest, the Rap music/culture is partially an issue here, with stars rapping about having guns and shooting people. Add to that the police in that area are just plain brutal, and the whole area is pretty damn poor, you have a perfect storm. Kids with little future except various criminal enterprises, living in a system designed to incarcerate them at five to ten times the rate of white kids, and their idols talk about hoisting a nine and blasting away…

Yep, forgot it’s dd/mm/yyyy…too used to mm/dd/yyyy, but I try to convert it…sometimes I fail in a spectacular fashion!

Given the number of cheap Chinese goods with Lithium Ion batteries that keep catching fire, not sure that’s an ideal plan…

Get pizza scissors!

http://www.scotranslate.com Far from perfect, but amusing… ”You’re a fucking moron” translated as “Ye’r a pumpin’ baw juggler”, for instance… Disappointed I don’t see a reverse option.

Might be a terrible thing if you had to squeeze down that sidewalk…was that a watch or wallet on a long chain in your pocket that scraped that car? Darn.

Welcome back, just let us know where to picket to free you next time!

Shame if someone with a spike studded leather jacket over their shoulder sauntered along that way carelessly.

Sentenced for violating the law on public disparagement of the war because the phone calls he made the complaints on were wiretapped and listened to… https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/russia-convicts-police-officer-ukraine-war-criticism-98822533