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That 'few tens of thousands profit' is generally after many of the expenses that you & I pay out of out take-home pay. Like fuel, vehicles, housing, some clothing, and so on. If I had £10k left after that, then I would be pretty happy. Change 'will be' for 'may be'. Not many farms up this...

Marion Shoard. Was Porritt also disappointing?

Three stories on that aspect: I once attended a speech from an author who wrote some polemic books that basically led me to my career. I was very disappointed to find in real life they were nothing like I had imagined / hoped. A real wet lettuce. At a conference I sat next to a QC at dinner...

And also, we have never heard from these doctors who have said that he 'aced' his cognitive tests, and that they have never seen anyone as fit as him. That's all made up as well - so he'll just say 'I've been told I'm so good, and asked to stay on'.

The trouble is you can never tell whether he's just talking complete bollocks, winding people up, lying - or being serious. He has 'jokingly' talked about stuff that then happens - so how are you determining that this particular bit was a 'wind-up'?

Still doubling down on this. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/18/trump-military-mass-deportation PS - is the thread going to renamed for when the lunatic is in power, or should we start a new one?

I hope he can catch.

Just a smidgen on the tops this morning.

I'm sure this is fixtures - but has England really got a young keeper called 'Whatmuff'?

Just finished watching it on i-player Indeed - I was asking for that as soon as they found the old man. Yes - the programme wasn't really about Lucan in the end. It was about the builder, and how obsession develops and takes over our lives. I found it quite fascinating - regardless of the...

Brilliant work. I have never had the patience for focus stacking - nor the control of the macro lens to that degree.

The rules re double-jeopardy are for red card offences. Not bookings.

He wasn't sent off for the penalty offence though. He was booked. So, the question is 'was it a fair yellow card'?

Not a song - but not bad drumming

Gerald Ratner springs to mind.

This really. Wetherspoons has a place - the snobbery about it is quite high. Don't like the bloke's politics - but you can't argue with the prices, and by and large they are okay. The beer is generally good because of the high turnover - it doesn't get time to fester and go off in the barrel...

Quite a good article about how the press reacted. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/16/amsterdam-violence-maccabi-tel-aviv-far-right

You'll have missed this then. In the world of those of us who work with maps on a daily basis, it was quite an event! https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/news/three-norths-align-great-britain

Thanks to the Cure's new album I have been listening again to their back catalogue, but also browsing around on You Tube which isn't something I do much of. A Forest is a track I've heard hundreds of times (I was trying to work it out - if it was released in 1980, that's 44 years. Say a dozen...