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8 hours ago, Oystercatcher said:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-68520949
King bestows Scotland's highest honour on his brother.
For what I have no idea.
Off with their heads
It'll go with all the hard earned medals they all wear.cant understand how people are taken in by these hucksters
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18 hours ago, Cosmic Joe said:
I think someone should start a Sophie Ellis-Bextor appreciation thread.
My mate used to think her mum was hot on Blue Peter.
I'm clearly getting old.
Who was her mum,pics of possible please
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On 05/03/2024 at 20:35, scottsdad said:
Some are worth it. The world at war was 26 episodes.
Twentysix hour long episodes.nowadays,in the age that editing forgot,it'd last longer than the war itself
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10 hours ago, pub car king said:
My wife has to fly with them for a short business trip soon she said she'd rather pay herself to fly with literally anyone else.
You can't check in until 24 hours before (easy jet is a month) oh and you also for some fucking reson need to a paper copy of your check in. She physically won't be anywhere near a printer. Don't worry though because you can do an early check in, for a price.
Oh and her walk on bag has to be the size of a napkin or some other bullshit.
They are a shower of c***s and I'd love to see them go tits up.
Tbh,I think most of that is bollocks
If you've paid for a seat you can check in sooner than 24 hours in advance
The only time I've needed a paper copy is recently,flying from Morocco& that's nothing to do with ryanair(though their Comms re this were dreadful),it's to do with Moroccan airports.otherwise,checking in via their app is a piece of piss
Walk on bag size of a napkin?again,bollocks.i was 7 nights in Morocco&had 7 nights worth of clothes etc in a normal sized backpack(22 or 25 litres),it was bursting at the seams but no issue whatsoever.
Ryanair have their problems but,unlike the aforementioned easyJet,at least they're,in my experience,reliable.ive had half a dozen last minute easyJet cancellations in the last 5 years,never once with ryanair
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5 hours ago, Al B said:
I'm generally fascinated by coincidences, which often get caught up in conspiracy theories as being reasons why there must be more than meets the eye.
I've been reading a bit about the Malaysia Airlines plane that was shot down over Ukraine in 2014, and noticed that it was Flight 17, it's first flight was 17 July 1997 and it was shot down on 17 July 2014, exactly 17 years to the day later.
Coincidences to that level are mind boggling, so interesting.
Are we not hard wired to see patterns even when there aren't?
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On 04/03/2024 at 08:32, GordonS said:
By definition the poor don't own cars, so they benefit the most as it becomes safer and easier to walk and cycle, and buses are less delayed by cars.
If they improve the public transport infrastructure,otherwise,no
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Is it just me or are more&more TV documentaries getting needlessly longer?
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21 hours ago, GordonS said:
By definition the poor don't own cars, so they benefit the most as it becomes safer and easier to walk and cycle, and buses are less delayed by cars.
In a first world country plenty of the less well off have cars,that doesn't make them rich ,relative to where they live.
I work shifts&live in an established,urban area.its impossible for me to use public transport to get to&from it and i'm not especially confident in the brave new world they're wanting that the public transport infrastructure will be improved in any way.
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18 hours ago, 2426255 said:
Scottish government are trying to influence folk away from personal car use. City centers are more pedestrianised, focus on cycling infrastructure/awareness and reduction of speed limits to 20mph.
Assuming you live in Scotland, it'll over years become less worthwhile owning a car. The car will move lower down the food chain on Scotland's roads, e.g. Making cars take longer, more inefficient routes will be planned into road layouts. Cyclists and pedestrians will be a higher priority, making them more important than car users.
Similar to the method with smoking fags. Cars aren't being banned, just disincentivized over the long term. More with the next generation or two in mind, rather than for our benefit (e.g. the cycling network is still a bit of a Frankenstein).
Problem will be theyll make no meaningful effort to improve our woeful public transport system while doing this,so the poorer will be increasingly ghettoised&the rich will be able to carry on as before,albeit more expensively with more detours.
And you just know a huge proportion of what is put aside for public transport will be swallowed up by consultancy fees&beaurocracy
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3 hours ago, tongue_tied_danny said:
Yeah, I've read both of them. I did enjoy reading them but I believe serious historians look down their noses at Antony Beevor. His books are very readable but they do verge on sensationalism at times.
I was actually referring to the First World War in my post above though. Its hard to find much about it anywhere. I could be way off the mark here, but I've always suspected that most of the soldiers in the Russian army, possibly the Austro-Hungarian Army too, were illiterate so there isn't many diaries or other source material that authors would use to research a book. Like I say, I could be well off the mark there but the fact remains that there's not many English language books about the Eastern Front in WW1.
I think one of the problems was the russian&austro-hungarian empires ceasing to exist at its end,leaving chaos in it's wake so there were no official histories&people had more important things to do to survive than write memoirs;I've been to the hard to spell/pronounce polish city,(pryszmsyl is my stab at it today),given what an important battle it was especially for A-H,it's remarkable how little memorial there is there for their tens of thousands of casualties at that place,again signifying that for it's former citizens in 1918 there was more pressing business
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7 hours ago, tongue_tied_danny said:
I'm keen to read more about the Eastern Front in WW1 but there's very little out there. In English at least.
I tried reading Norman Stone's book about it, but it was quite dry and I gave up pretty quickly.
Alexander Watson's Ring of Steel and his following book about a siege in a Polish city, that I'm not going to attempt to spell, were both excellent.
Nick Lloyd has an Eastern Front book out soon, that I've pre-ordered. I'm looking forward to getting stuck in to it.
Does anyone have any recommendations for Eastern Front WW1 books?
A guy called prit butter has a a ww1 eastern front series,year by year
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9 hours ago, Ned Nederlander said:
Has noone actually said "wid" yet?
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Hope the actors got their pay up front,I get the feeling the guy behind this isn't someone you'd trust
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12 hours ago, Salt n Vinegar said:
Dunno about "utter vermin",
No,I'm good with that
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11 minutes ago, Lofarl said:
East Kilbride man?
Sure he was just being friendly
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Hold tight by harlin Cobin.laughingly bad
Prior to that a biography of Peter the great which was magnificent
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Ben,lee for guys
Jo for females
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On 17/02/2024 at 22:06, Savage Henry said:
The Space Shuttle that fell to Earth, on iPlayer, is one of the most compelling documentaries I’ve ever seen. It’s morbid, nerve wracking and moving.
Only seen the first episode.i take it,from how that ended,they knew they were fucked from just after them lifting off
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23 hours ago, mathematics said:
I fell asleep watching Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049. Dull.
Prob says more about you than the films tbh
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13 hours ago, Trogdor said:
I think the owners are needing put down as well.
theyre the real problem;getting dogs they cant and/or have no interest in controlling or taking responsibility for.theyre the ones that should be neutered or put down
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11 hours ago, senorsoupe said:
Pretty incredible that Ivory Coast sacked their manager in the middle of the tournament and still won it all
pretty incredible that a team that shouldnt have been anywhere near the knockout stages won it
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Those well known religious zealots,the British armed forces
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13 minutes ago, CarrbridgeSaintee said:
Horrible things.
Who,the sort of people that'd mistreat a turtle for YouTube hits?
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Conspiracy Theories
in The General Nonsense Forum
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They've clearly learned their lesson after the last time they topped a "queen of hearts"
No body,no fuss
One rule for nat Fraser,another rule for this shower