Del79 Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 Karl Pilkington must really need the money. The real Putin, may need to do the same soon. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theroadlesstravelled Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 2 hours ago, Mackie The Staggie said: Don't know if this has been posted before, but the TLDR is how Putin seemed to think sending big scary looking fuckers would have been enough to act as riot police...didn't bet on any push back, and now it's all gone wrong. Interesting. There a lot to mull over here. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djchapsticks Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 Now we know what bin Salman's efforts of 'mediation' have looked like in the past. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theroadlesstravelled Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 16 minutes ago, Detective Jimmy McNulty said: Lack of Anne Widucum? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andre Bo Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 (edited) 42 minutes ago, Shandon Par said: I’ve got winter tyres on my van to go and paint a few houses. Can’t believe Vlad never put them on his army vehicles for an invasion. Vlad, if you’re reading this and need some general life skill advice, or if you want the Kremlin painted, my rates are very fair. I have a genuine question. I'm living in a detached house for the first time in my life. I need the front and back masonry and the front wall and the woodwork/eaves etc painted. The sides of the house are unpainted roughcast, so what is a reasonable ballpark quote for everything except the masonry on the sides of the house? It's a pretty standard interwar bungalow. I apologise for going off topic, folks. Edited March 3, 2022 by Andre Bo 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andre Bo Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 He did invite the question, to be fair. #priorities #perspective 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherrif John Bunnell Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 8 minutes ago, djchapsticks said: Now we know what bin Salman's efforts of 'mediation' have looked like in the past. Dear Volodymyr, why don't we meet in the Kyiv Saudi Arabian embassy for a quick chat? Kind Regards MBS 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florentine_Pogen Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 I have a genuine question. I'm living in a detached house for the first time in my life. I need the front and back masonry and the front wall and the woodwork/eaves etc painted. The sides of the house are unpainted roughcast, so what is a reasonable ballpark quote for everything except the masonry on the sides of the house? It's a pretty standard interwar bungalow. I apologise for going off topic, folks. [emoji51]Fuxake, let's just change the thread title :- "Roughcast and Brushing of Your Rones" 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Left Back Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 3 minutes ago, Andre Bo said: He did invite the question, to be fair. #priorities #perspective Letting a mentalist from Fife loose on your new house is your top priority? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andre Bo Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 Just now, Left Back said: Letting a mentalist from Fife loose on your new house is your top priority? Unless he fancies a long drive I doubt that will happen... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 They're not really taking this seriously anymore, they're playing giant jax. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florentine_Pogen Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/03/roman-empire-rise-fall-abramovich-reign-chelsea-fc Abramovich. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loonytoons Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 2 hours ago, maicoman said: A bit off topic here One of the funniest things i ever heard on the radio was a programe about the Scottish people that went over to Spain to fight in the civil war in the 1930s Said to my mum "Why would anybody fight in a war that did not concern them?" She said "Why not listen and find out" First guy on "I seen what was happening in Europe It was simply we either stopped the Facists in Spain or we would have to stop them somewhere else We failed in Spain and had to fight the 2nd world war" A good excuse to go to Spain Next was a woman she said "I had just finished my training to become a nurse There were 4 of the boys in my tenement in Glasgow that had went over to fight I went over because of them" A good excuse to go Next guy "I believed that the ballot box was more important than the gun" Fair enough a good excuse to go Next they get this guy from Fife on As soon as he started talking at 100mph in his broad Fife accent i was laughing to myself as he was reminding me of someone i knew from Fife "I man at that time i was rebuilding the main st in Kirkcaldy The gaffer shouts at me to get that wheelbarrow of sand up here now! These were the days if you stopped to wipe the sweat from your brow you would get sacked on the spot I picked up the wheelbarrow and ran the length of the street with it The gaffer shouted at me when i got there i said now! I looked at him looked at the barrow of sand looked at him again and couped the barrow of sand over his feet and shouted at him i am away to Spain to shoot b*****ds like you !" A fair few historians would point to WWII starting in Spain in 1936 and not the invasion of Poland. It certainly wasn't a civil war in the true sense. This scenario is similar in a political scenario, Governments not engaging with the oppressor but nationals heading over and taking up arms for the oppressed. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jedi Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 Even Russian cats! have been banned from taking part in an International Cat showing tournament now. The Para Olympics has chucked them out....so is it time to ban Medvedev from tennis tournaments yet? Ukraine has already made overtures to the International Tennis Federation to do so. Meanwhile, they are appealing to FIFA about their suspension. Time for UEFA to say that they are also booted out of the next Euro Qualifiers, and the Nations League, along with Belarus, with a 3 year ban on entering any UEFA club competitions for both countries as well. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wee-Bey Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 10 minutes ago, Jedi said: Even Russian cats! have been banned from taking part in an International Cat showing tournament now. The Para Olympics has chucked them out....so is it time to ban Medvedev from tennis tournaments yet? Ukraine has already made overtures to the International Tennis Federation to do so. Meanwhile, they are appealing to FIFA about their suspension. Time for UEFA to say that they are also booted out of the next Euro Qualifiers, and the Nations League, along with Belarus, with a 3 year ban on entering any UEFA club competitions for both countries as well. You really don't like Medvedev do you ? This is like the 3rd time you've been on about him particularly. And why a 3 year ban ? Why not 2, or 5 or 10. Or indeed, why not just until the conflict ends ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loonytoons Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 3 hours ago, Hillonearth said: I was talking to somebody who knows quite a lot about military theory and they were saying that much of the Russian battleplan up until now seems to be too bad to ring true...they're making elementary mistakes that you'd learn not to do in your first week at somewhere like Sandhurst. Thinking is that possibily either the military are deliberately making a baws of it in order to weaken Putin's position, or else Putin has personally conceived a grand invasion plan which they knew was amateurish and they're carrying it out to the letter knowing it would fail and weaken him. My worry with this is that it is deliberate. What modern war has ever not involved the air force as a prime strike force? Are they just trying to battle harden a large proportion of the conscripts for future incursions?* * Complete pessimist that sees the worst case in everything. Banned from playing Risk as I was so paranoid. And this does feel like a game of Risk, we can only hope Putin doesn't have a full set of cavalry, artillery and infantry when he gets his third card from getting Ukraine. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 7 minutes ago, Detective Jimmy McNulty said: You really don't like Medvedev do you ? This is like the 3rd time you've been on about him particularly. And why a 3 year ban ? Why not 2, or 5 or 10. Or indeed, why not just until the conflict ends ? It's a case of can't be too careful. We have tried the cats, and EA have lobbed them out of FIFA 22, but how daft will we look if it was Tennis guy all along? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jedi Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 13 minutes ago, Detective Jimmy McNulty said: You really don't like Medvedev do you ? This is like the 3rd time you've been on about him particularly. And why a 3 year ban ? Why not 2, or 5 or 10. Or indeed, why not just until the conflict ends ? You are right....might as well readmit them in time for the WC. So if the conflict ended next week, all sanctions immediately end, M+S, IKEA, Apple etc can start happily selling their product in ol'Russia again, as the conflict is now 'at an end'?....better get those oligarch vessels ready to sail again by the weekend as well. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hillonearth Posted March 4, 2022 Share Posted March 4, 2022 (edited) 23 minutes ago, Loonytoons said: My worry with this is that it is deliberate. What modern war has ever not involved the air force as a prime strike force? Are they just trying to battle harden a large proportion of the conscripts for future incursions?* * Complete pessimist that sees the worst case in everything. Banned from playing Risk as I was so paranoid. And this does feel like a game of Risk, we can only hope Putin doesn't have a full set of cavalry, artillery and infantry when he gets his third card from getting Ukraine. I suppose the argument against that is that with a conscript army, you've only got them for two or three years so they're of limited use in the long term. According to the guy I was talking to, the Russian army aren't bad per se - pound for pound they're certainly not top notch, but despite their inherent mediocrity they can normally grind out a W through weight of numbers which if we're being honest is likely to happen in this instance. There just seem to be such a ridiculous amount of rookie mistakes being made here though that it beggars belief that they're currently fighting to the best of their ability against a numerically and technologically inferior opponent...their re-enactment of Arnhem (twice apparently!) at Kyiv airport, their comedy approach to logistics and even their elementary misunderstanding of terrain to list a few. Edited March 4, 2022 by Hillonearth 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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