Except #5: I'd rather get hit by a slow sharp asteroid than listen to them ๐
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Except #5: I'd rather get hit by a slow sharp asteroid than listen to them ๐
Wow Kenny Roberts Senior doesn't look anything like I remember him...๐ซก
Look like it ๐คทโโ๏ธ
I wonder if there's a book called 'Is BlueSky Dying?' ๐
He's so lucky Wales isn't a proper country ๐
Who said this site is dying? ๐ Dad jokes are eternal!
Too late! ๐คฃ
That goes all the way back to Jackie Stewart and Jim Clark before him, as certain people ๐ ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ will no doubt remind you ๐ซก Always found it a bit nonsensical tbh: it used be flung around when I was even younger but never saw an actual example in the wild ๐คทโโ๏ธ
Can't wait to see what happened next: no spoilers please! ๐
I have just posted a video in which I state unequivocally that I hate video podcasts much more than you do...๐ซก
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Not quite at that stage but I feel I could pretty much bin it without losing much. Have signed up to enough free substacks (yes I know) to get the political stuff I'm interested in anyway ๐คทโโ๏ธ
White-ish is more than an infinite range of paint colours ๐ซก
Well I know Franz Josef thought you were all a bunch of shits...
If you look at Amerika, both Irish and Italian immigrants (and probably plenty others) were very much not considered as white at various times. Of course the Native Americans had been conveniently genocided by then. What an exceptional country: so great every country is seemingly on that path ๐ฌ
What about mole-holes? This is just pro-rabbit propaganda ๐
In a wider sense, that statement is probably true, sadly
You could have been called TBD or TBA if they'd written it in pencil ๐คทโโ๏ธ
Stop being so reluctant: dive, dive, dive!
Holy moly, some of those replies (and the replies to the replies are an order of magnitude worse) ๐๐คทโโ๏ธ
It's literally a news-free site for anything that isn't politics, whereas Ye Olde Twitter was great for both popular and arcane stuff. Following more people hasn't helped (starter packs have really fucked up my feed - my fault but can't undo ๐)
Well, as the ANC in SA still apparently think the USSR is still going strong I don't think much practical advice or policy is likely to emerge from this part of the BRICS ๐
Indeed. Didn't see him when I was on Twitter but he's been a great find on the BlueSky thingy.
politicians and media relentlessly conflating the two for years has made constructive discussion of (gasp) a coherent immigration policy ๐ impossible ๐
Laughton's only directorial role, but he absolutely nailed it, didn't he?
What was it?
My eyes (both of them) ๐
Agree: someone must have hacked his account...๐๐
Stephen this is an opinion so bad Iโm buying shares in Warner Bros to make bank on the incredible success of Potter the series
Ditto: two of the wrongliest opinions IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD...so far ๐
I'll nominate that as one of the most tasteless analogies of all time. Who if anyone actually said that?
Traction...๐๐ซก
Still better than My Ding A Ling...
That's what I would have thought too.
Due to a booking error Rudy Giuliani has been laid to rest in the parking lot at Woodlawn Mulch & Chip Depot
I can remember Tony defending his staying on X on this very platform not so long ago: it's certainly a bit of a U-turn chiding others ๐คทโโ๏ธ
Ah-hah-lah ๐ As the Supreme Beingโข๏ธ says, like you have a plum in your mouth and a carrot up your arse ๐ซก
Still sharper than Dougie...
Certainly looks like it. Not a lawyer, would be interested to know how English law looks at this, if at all.
Is the British government actually allowed to deny entry to a British citizen with a valid passport though? It's free speech under US law and although repellent probably not a crime under English law is it? Interesting example though ๐ค
D1 (went to a posh girls' school) rhymes 'hair', 'wear' and 'there' but not remotely how they are written ๐ Sorta 'haah, waah and thaah' ๐ซก๐คทโโ๏ธ
1st guy to play with a dead President...๐คทโโ๏ธ
Patton at least wore his uniforms very stylishly: MacArthur mostly dressed like a slob, which is surprising for an paranoid egomaniacal narcissist ๐ซก
Oh, me too ๐ Seems like he's been at Williams since the Treaty of Westphalia ๐
Yep, that's pretty much it: if you didn't know how good Perez was before he went to RB you'd think 'why did he get that seat?'
Well if the baddie is Basil Rathbone (very sound Joburg lad) he can exposition ๐ himself in wonderfully clear English without getting breathless while swording ๐คบ
Also sword fights: not really sure a 'plot' is totally necessary when one has these ๐ซก
Wasn't it also Sainz, Kviyat and the other Aussie whose name escapes me before Gasly? Might need to invent quantum computing on my wood-burning laptop just to keep count...
Been pretty much a career-killer for everyone ever since it ceased to be the co-number one seat, hasn't it. Poor Yuki ๐คทโโ๏ธ
Is this a metaphor? ๐ซก
In the original draft the aliens just took over the Colonial Office and nobody outside the UK noticed the difference ๐ซก
Don't forget equestrian ๐ด
Oh no so when Dubya said God told him to invade Iraq ๐ฎ๐ถ he may have had a bad signal? ๐
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Let me know what you think!
IMHO very much so. RR is an accomplished journalist not an historian: it's a literary journey through biographies, histories and fictional interpretations of Hitler. It's probably unique and I found it very insightful and thought-provoking.
Rosenbaum has quite a good discussion around that in Explaining Hitler
Wasn't quite my point tbh: if Hitler had died earlier rather than in the bunker it's very hard to see that the trajectory would have been maintained. Trump dies, everything will change, but possibly not for the better.
Hold on: was he...woke?
I laughed, but through my fingers...๐ฌ
Absence makes the heart grow morbid, or something ๐คทโโ๏ธ
FWIW I think Trump's hold over the GOP is akin to Adolf's over Nazi Germany: it will fracture after Trump is gone, although that doesn't mean things don't get worse ๐ฌ
Stephen Miller with rimless glasses would be a fairly plausible double, but yes, Beria was a Party Animal to the end ๐
Fun video! ๐
Not any the wiser but thank you! ๐
My god only 1/10 I think ๐
๐ซก who are the guys in white? ๐คทโโ๏ธ
This is v good IMHO too: US coverage of Trump this way would be the right way to go to get away from the widespread denialism
When I become Supreme Emperor all musicians will have to play in nicely pressed suits and with correctly knotted ties ๐ซก
I'm getting Thumb Injuryโข๏ธ bashing the refresh button every five seconds ๐คทโโ๏ธ
Or lack thereof ๐ซก
Does the Democrat party still exist in โMurica? Asking for a nation for whom itโs likely too late anyway
Even the P-51 with a laminar wing managed to get the undercarriage the right way around ๐ซก
Yes, I think California's (?) ban on pistol magazines > 10 cartridges is a decent start
Babbitt getting killed possibly turned the tide of January 6th, as I think it somehow came as a genuine shock to those monsters that you could be shot for the crime of trying to lynch all of your fuhrer's opponents
Gravitas, or desperately holding in a Number Two
Is his name Zhukov? ๐
Personally I think bolt-action rifles are fine: it's the semiautomatic AR-15 and -10 clones with 30-round magazines that must be banned and confiscated ๐คทโโ๏ธ
In the bins? My god they're a cunning bunch ๐
Wooden't you know it...๐
I can believe that: the 109's legs seem to point in diametrically opposite directions!
Well not yet
Yep, democracy, if that's what it was, didn't even get a 'going away' drinks party, it's the most bland, stupid and infuriating coup ever ๐
Yep: hope that's the end for the other one but Americans are too anaesthetised to do anything ๐คทโโ๏ธ
There are loads of actors I confuse like that ๐
His successor as SAC supremo, Thomas Power, was arguably even worse (SIOP etc, would have killed the entire planet a la On The Beach ๐
Indeed. Hard to argue that LeMay's approach wasn't genocidal in intent.
Fortunately I bought egg futures via the Easter Bunny's derivative exchange last year so I'm sure I'm fine ๐ Oh, I did specify physical delivery didn't I? ๐๐
Would love to see the flagpole it goes with ๐ซก
You're doing a good sales job! How much if I may ask?
Yep: can't wait to see Trumpy in his Gaddafi comedy uniform ๐
He has WAY too many good opinions! Needs to share them a bit...
Especially true with carry /hedging costs: Sod's Law is you get hedge fatigue, don't roll over the hedge and then everything goes pear shaped. Iirc this was JPM just before GFC but might be wrong on date.
I read a bio a few years ago (Brown?): good on the facts but didn't feel I knew much about the man himself at the end ๐คทโโ๏ธ
Not sure I've seen it in the wild but immediately assumed ME was Middle East ๐
Same inside-out undercarriage as the Me109, but didn't seem to suffer as badly as the latter did ๐คทโโ๏ธ
Probably a Rothko fanbot: or possibly not - he has many many fans...